Reconstruction:Proto-Mayan/kabʼ

This Proto-Mayan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Mayan

Noun

*kabʼ

earth, land

Descendants

Tzotzil: chob
Yucatec Maya: kaab

References

Brown, Cecil H.; Wichmann, Søren (April 2004), “Proto-Mayan syllable nuclei”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 70, number 2, →DOI, pages 128–186: “*kabʼ ‘earth, land, world’”
Kaufman, Terrence; Justeson, John (2003), A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], page 414: “pM *kab' [2] ~ kaab'”