The Maya Chronicles: Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1
History
The Maya Chronicles: Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1
Maya language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Maya language -- Texts; Mayas -- Antiquities; Mayas -- History
[56-1] M. Delaporte's calculations are mentioned by Leon de Rosny,
_Essai sur le Déchiffrement de l'Ecriture Hiératique de l'Amérique
Centrale_, p. 25 (Paris, 1876); Professor Thomas' will be found in the
_American Naturalist_, for 1881, and in his _Study of the Codex Troano_,
Washington, 1882.
[57-1] Pio Perez, _Cronologia Antigua de Yucatan_. § VIII.
[57-2] "_Katun_, para siempre." Beltran de Santa Rosa, _Arte del Idioma
Maya_, p. 177.
[58-1] The following extracts from two manuscripts in my hands will
throw further light on this derivation--
KATUN: espacio de veinte años; _hun katun_, 20 años; _ca katun_, 40
años, etc.
KATUN: batallon de gente, ordenada de guerra y ejercito asi, y soldados
cuando actualmente andan en la guerra.
KATUN (TAH, TÉ): guerrear, hacer guerra, ò dar guerra.
KATUNBEN: el que tiene tantas venteinas de años, segun el numeral que se
le junta, _hay katunben ech?_ cuantas venteinas de años tienes tu? _ca
katunben en_, tengo dos venteinas.
DICCIONARIO DE MOTUL, MS., 1590.
ÇAT (he): generalmente sig^a cortar algo con acha, cuchillo ô hiera;
detener algo que se huya, atajarlo, etc.
Varea, _Calepino en Lengva[TN-8] Cakchiquel_, MS., 1699.
[61-1] _Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_, 1880.
[62-1] The example he gives is the word _le_, which he says "para
escrivirle con sus caracteres _habiendoles nosotros hecho entender_ que
son dos letras, lo escrivian ellos con tres," etc., thus plainly saying
that they did not analyze the word to its phonetic radicals in their
system. _Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan_, p. 318.
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