Yucatec Maya — top 351 words

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#	Yucatec Maya	English
1		your (Set A second-person marker)
2		he, she, it (independent pronoun)
3		they (independent pronoun)
4		you (singular, independent pronoun)
5		I (independent pronoun)
6		you (plural, independent pronoun)
7		we (independent pronoun)
8		why, for what reason
9		now; today
10		slowly
11		very
12		again
13		not
14		well; good
15		very
16		here
17		where
18		nine
19		one hundred eighty (literally 'nine score')
20		nineteen
21		eleven
22		eight thousand (one pik, 20 x 400)
23		five
24		one hundred (literally 'five score')
25		fifteen
26		one
27		four hundred (one baakʼ, 20 x 20)
28		twenty (literally 'one score')
29		four
30		eighty (literally 'four score')
31		fourteen
32		two
33		eight hundred (two baakʼ)
34		forty (literally 'two score')
35		twelve
36		ten
37		thirty (literally 'ten into the second score')
38		two hundred (literally 'ten score')
39		seven
40		one hundred forty (literally 'seven score')
41		seventeen
42		one hundred twenty (literally 'six score')
43		sixteen
44		six
45		eight
46		one hundred sixty (literally 'eight score')
47		eighteen
48		three
49		twelve hundred (three baakʼ)
50		sixty (literally 'three score')
51		thirteen
52		to wake up
53		to shout, to scream
54		to say
55		to nail; to knock in
56		to roll up, to wind
57		to hide, to conceal
58		to fall down
59		to smooth, to polish
60		to hit, to strike
61		to make, to do
62		to go; to leave
63		to take, to carry
64		to gamble; to dive
65		to stalk like a cat
66		to play; to joke
67		to play
68		to undress
69		to watch something entertaining
70		to laugh
71		to lie down
72		to bite
73		to catch
74		to appear, to turn up
75		to see; to visit
76		to eat (transitive)
77		to eat
78		to free, to set free
79		to irrigate, to water
80		to learn, to study
81		to learn
82		to teach
83		to die
84		to touch, to rub
85		to sit
86		to sit down
87		to live
88		to kill
89		to drag, to pull
90		to sing
91		to recognize, to identify
92		to lean
93		to arrive
94		to roast
95		to ask; to want, to desire
96		to rise, to get up
97		to work
98		to whisper
99		to sweep
100		to understand; to guess
101		to dream
102		to enter, to come in
103		to cry, to weep
104		to steal, to rob
105		to fold
106		to play music
107		to fear, to be afraid
108		to come
109		to sit cross-legged
110		to kiss; to suck
111		to write
112		to spit
113		to think
114		to think; to remember
115		to lie, to say something untrue
116		to speak
117		to dream
118		to urinate
119		to read; to count
120		to read; to study
121		to walk; to stroll
122		to be, to exist
123		to descend
124		to dance
125		bold, brave, daring
126		rich, wealthy
127		black
128		navy blue
129		small
130		slow
131		red
132		naked, nude
133		small
134		hard
135		blue
136		sweet
137		wet; humid
138		beautiful
139		free, at liberty
140		drunk, intoxicated
141		dead
142		handsome (of a man)
143		beautiful (of a woman)
144		alive
145		bitter
146		Mayan
147		good
148		white
149		swollen; ripe
150		skinny
151		cooked; ripe
152		dry
153		hairy
154		new
155		masculine, male
156		green
157		poor; miserable
158		grass used for thatching roofs
159		tongue; vine
160		child (of a mother)
161		domestic animal
162		wart
163		sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
164		nephew
165		priest
166		scribe, writer
167		lord, ruler, king
168		alux, a sprite in Mayan folklore
169		spider
170		sugar
171		wife
172		a scream, a yell
173		plain chachalaca (Ortalis vetula)
174		bone; horn
175		corncob
176		balché tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus)
177		hail, hailstone
178		thing, object
179		wild animal
180		howler monkey (Alouatta palliata)
181		quail
182		shade, shadow
183		game of chance
184		bus
185		jaguar (Panthera onca); guardian of the forest
186		baby
187		anteater
188		jaguar (Panthera onca)
189		apple
190		plain, savanna
191		navel
192		a show; a festival, a party
193		beer
194		tree; wood; stick
195		bag, sack
196		vampire bat
197		mouth; border, edge
198		eclipse
199		solar eclipse
200		lunar eclipse
201		white-nosed coati (Nasua narica)
202		rain; the rain spirits
203		rainbow
204		pinguin (Bromelia pinguin)
205		small stone, pebble
206		fox
207		turkey vulture
208		mouse, rat
209		sugar
210		bird
211		girl, young woman
212		star
213		constellation
214		egg
215		eye; face
216		bottom, base, end
217		female writer, female scribe
218		maize, corn
219		food
220		water; rain; lake
221		year
222		banana
223		direction
224		egg
225		raven, crow
226		door
227		nostril
228		abyss
229		mother tongue
230		iguana; lizard
231		book; paper
232		irrigation, watering
233		beekeeper
234		neck
235		snake; worm
236		cacao
237		window
238		fish
239		metate, grinding stone
240		sky
241		cheese
242		older sister
243		collared peccary (Pecari tajacu)
244		tooth; beak
245		puma, mountain lion
246		field, milpa
247		woman
248		life
249		beginning
250		deer; venison
251		football, soccer
252		eagle
253		elbow
254		name
255		a song
256		hand, arm; branch; handle
257		whale shark
258		sun; day; time
259		blood
260		fire
261		pyramid
262		a god, a deity
263		a Mayan pyramid, temple
264		beer
265		fire
266		sea
267		question
268		forest
269		pig
270		squash
271		leaf
272		land; soil, earth
273		relative, family member; friend
274		a Maya person; the Maya language
275		the Yucatec Maya language
276		nose
277		boss, chief
278		dream
279		mirror
280		opossum
281		boa constrictor (Boa imperator)
282		thief
283		avocado
284		heat; steam, vapour
285		house, home
286		back (of the body)
287		child
288		music
289		orange (fruit)
290		servant; slave
291		skunk
292		butterfly
293		knee
294		needle
295		tomato
296		knuckle
297		hat
298		pelican
299		cheek
300		tayra (Eira barbara)
301		anteater, Mexican tamandua
302		beer (Spanish loan)
303		gift, present
304		skull
305		Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata)
306		horse; Baird's tapir
307		train (literally 'fire horse')
308		canine tooth, fang
309		cenote, sinkhole
310		hummingbird
311		a kiss
312		writing; a text
313		hoe (agricultural tool)
314		saliva, spit
315		navel, belly button
316		thought, idea; mind
317		stone
318		moon
319		louse
320		river
321		coyote
322		tortilla; bread
323		cattle, cow, bull
324		a dream
325		urine
326		month; a 20-day period of the Maya calendar
327		pitahaya, dragon fruit
328		person, human being; man
329		body
330		comal, griddle
331		shoe, sandal
332		man, male
333		wing; armpit
334		boy, young man
335		cockroach
336		shark
337		student
338		number; lesson
339		horn (of an animal)
340		a walk
341		fog, mist
342		father; lord
343		turtle
344		lagoon; swamp
345		crocodile, caiman
346		angel
347		husband
348		fingernail; claw
349		younger sibling
350		a dance
351		turkey