peech

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• pech (obsolete)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpèːt͡ʃ]

Noun

peech

1. tick

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 176: “Garrapata. Pech.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 71