kaʼah

Yucatec Maya

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mayan *kaaʼbʼ.

Alternative forms

• ca (obsolete)

Numeral

kaʼah

1. two

Adverb

kaʼah

1. again

References

• Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 152: “Ca. Dos. 2.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, pages 60, 203

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

kaʼah

1. and
2. that
3. when

References

• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 60

Etymology 3

From Proto-Mayan *kAʼ.

Noun

kaʼah

1. metate (grinding stone)

References

• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 60