kʼéekʼen

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms
  • kekén (obsolete)

Etymology

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkʼéːkʼen]

Noun

kʼéekʼen

  1. pig

Derived terms
  • pibil kʼéekʼen

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 177: “Puerco, ò cerdil. Kekén.”
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 64
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