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Mayan

adjectivenounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈmaɪən//
  • //ˈmɑːjən//
  • //ˈmɛːjən//

Of or relating to the Maya people of Central America and southeastern Mexico.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to the Maya people of Central America and southeastern Mexico.

Etymology

Etymology tree English Maya Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Mayan From Maya + -an.

noun

  1. 1

    A Maya person.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The language of the Maya people.

  2. 2

    An age from 502 to 501 ± 2.0 million years ago, a subdivision of the Cambrian.

Forms

plural
Mayans
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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