Kechelaj Jupuq is the word used for the hordes of Sisimito’s enchanted animals.
Kechelaj Komon is the name used for the Jungle Folk in the Sisimito Series. These are creatures like Sisimito (Mahanamatz in Maya.), and Xtabai.
Ki-che’ is Ke’kchi for the ‘maguey’ plant.
Kiaqxop is Maya for ‘rattlesnake’.
Ki-bix is Mopan Maya for ‘cowfoot vine’, Bauhinia herrerae (Britt. & Rose) Standl. & Steyerm. Another name is pata de vaca (Spanish). It is a woody vine growing up to 50 meters long and the leaves are shaped like a cow’s hoof giving rise to the common name. It is an old remedy for birth control used by Maya women.
Kis is Maya for ‘excrement, animal dropping, shit’.
Kitam is the White Collared Peccary, Pecari tajacu, a wild pig.
Ko’one’ex is Maya for ‘Let’s go’.
Ko’yem is a Maya corn drink.
Koal seed is Kriol for ‘goose bumps’.
Koatn is Kriol for ‘flirting’ or ‘courting’.
Kohaw: This is a war helmet made of stone such as pyrite and worn only by an ajaw or a kaloonte’.
Köj is Maya for ‘mountain lion’ or ‘puma’.
Kolol (Ke’kchi Maya) is known in Belize as the Partridge. It is the Great Tinamou: Tinamus major. It is also known as Tinamú Grande, Norn, Ix Mancolol, and Ixkolool (Mopan Maya).
Komon-winaq is the Maya noun for ‘meeting’.
Kool is the Maya word for milpa. A milpa is a small field, especially in Mexico or Central America, that is cleared from the jungle, cropped for a few seasons, and then abandoned for a fresh clearing. Wahmil is secondary fresh-scrub growing on what was originally a milpa.
Koolnáal is Maya for ‘milpero‘, one who farms a milpa, a small ‘slash and burn’ farm.
Koropshan is Kriol for ‘pus’ or ‘corruption’.
Kos is Maya for the Laughing Falcon, Herpetotheres cachinnam. Another name is Halcon Guaco.
Koz is slang for ‘cousin’. Another Kriol spelling is kozn.
Krus-be is Maya for ‘crossroads’.
Kua is the Ke’kchi word for ‘tortilla’. The Mopan word is wah or waah. Another Maya word is lej.
Kumätz is Maya for ‘snake’. Another word is kaan, not to be mistaken with Kaán which is the sky level of Yaxché.
Kumum is the palm whose leaf is used as a broom to prepare the area in the river intended for fishing during the Maya traditional fishing vigil.
Kungo owt a ya is Kriol for ‘Let’s go out of here.’
Kus is Maya for a ‘quiver’ for arrows.
Kuts is Maya for the Ocellated Turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, also called Guajolote, and Ucutz Ilchican. Belize is one of the last places in the world where it exists.
La’j-tun is Ke’kchi for a ‘small drum’ used to dance at nighttime.
Lachreen is Kriol for ‘latrine’ or ‘out-house’.
Laiyad is Kriol for ‘telling a lie’.
Lak’in is Maya for ‘east’.
Lee bit is Kriol for ‘few’, but it is also a Kriol slang for the sexual act.
Lej-xajäbs is Maya for ‘sandals’.
Lika is Kriol for ‘liquor’.
Lool is Maya for Rose.
Maami is Kriol for ‘mamey’ or ‘mammy apple’, Pouteria sapota. It is known as sapote in Spanish.
Mahanamatz is the Maya name for Sisimito. It is the word for a gorilla-like mythical animal.
Mal Viento is Spanish for ‘bad/evil wind’.
Mam Kutach is the Maya name for the Ursa Major constellation, the Big Dipper.
Man-bwai: Kriol for a full-grown young man. It is usually used disparagingly.
Maquahuitl: This weapon was a war club used to crush the enemy. The end was sometimes fitted with pieces of sharp obsidian. The maquahuitl was widely used.
Masat is Ke’kchi for ‘deer’.
Mata’m-apanoq is Ke’kchi for ‘later’.
Matz is a sweet corn lab and is seasoned with beans to taste.
Mayul is Maya for ‘fog, mist, haze’.
Me’t is Ke’kchi for ‘tobacco’.
Mes-bél is Ke’kchi Maya for chichibe (Mopan Maya), Sida rhombifolia L. Other names are escoba, and malva (Spanish).
Metate is the corn grinding stone. They are made from volcanic stones and white sandstones. They last a lifetime and are commonly found in the earth, abandoned by the ancient Maya.
Mictlan Chen is the Maya name for ‘Cave of the Underworld’.
Mirador is Spanish for an elevated ‘viewpoint’ or ‘vantage point’ from which a scene can be observed.
Miramar has its roots in the Spanish language. It is the union of two words, Mirar (to look at) and mar (the sea). The hill is named Miramar as one is able to see the sea from there.
Mis is Mopan for Give-and-Take (Kriol), Cryosophila stauracantha. Another name is escoba (Spanish). Besides its medicinal uses, brooms (escoba) are made from young dried leaves tied together on a slender stick.
Mix-ba’al is Maya for ‘nothing’.
Moimatik is Maya for ‘to become twilight’, ‘dusk’.
Moleet is Ke’kchi for the ‘mullet’ fish. It is mo’let in Mopan.
Mutz is the Maya noun for’ cluster of stars’. It is also the name for the Pleiades Constellation.
Muuch is Maya for ‘toad’.
Naat is Kriol for the strong ‘north wind’. It usually refers to a cold front.
Naba is the bark of the Copal tree.
Nabac-cuc is the Maya name for the Allspice tree, Pimienta dioica.
Nabe is Maya for ‘First’.
Nabe Ajch’o’j is Maya for ‘First Warrior’.
Nabe Atan is Maya for ‘First Wife’.
Nabe Patzoj is Maya for ‘First Coitus’.
Nabeal is Maya for ‘firstborn’.
Nabeal K’ojol is Maya for ‘firstborn son of a male’.
Nabeal Mial is Maya for ‘firstborn daughter’.
Nacon is Maya for ‘officer’. It is also the name of a God of War.
Nah’ is Maya for ‘mother’.
Nik’aj-aq’ab is Maya for ‘midnight’.
Nik’aj-q’ij is Maya for ‘midday’.
Nim-ja’ Ti’ K’i’ik is the Maya name used for ‘River Of Blood’. Nim-ja’ is Maya for ‘river’, Ti’ for ‘with’, K’i’ik for ‘blood’.
Nim-ja’ Ti’ Puh is the Maya name used for ‘River Of Pus’. Nim-ja’ is Maya for ‘river’, Ti’ for ‘with’, and Puh for ‘pus’.
Nim-ja’ Ti’ Síina’ans is the Maya name used for ‘River of Scorpions’. Nim-ja’ is ‘river’, Ti’ is ‘with’, Síina’an is ‘scorpion’.
Nim-q’ij is Maya for ‘Royal’, as in Royalty, Nobility, and the Elite.
Nima-q’ij is the Maya noun for ‘holiday’ or ‘festival’.
Nimal is Maya for ‘leader, chief, or boss’.
Nof is Kriol for ‘enough’.
Noh-il is Maya for ‘Greatness’.
Nohoch Atz’am Ja’ is the Maya name used for ‘Great Salt Water’. In the Sisimito Series it refers to the Caribbean Sea.
Nohoch Wíinik is Maya for ‘old man’. Choc uses Nohoch Wíinik as meaning ‘Father’.
Nohol is Maya for ‘south’.
Nojinaq-ik’ is Ke’kchi for ‘full moon’.
O’on is Maya for ‘iguana’.
Oc is Maya for the King Vulture, Sacoramphus papa. It is also known as Carronero Rey, and Zopiloto Rey.
Ol is the Maya name used for the rubber ball used in playing Pitz. The action of ‘play’ is called Ti Pitziil in Classical Maya and Chaaj in Ke’kchi.
Olicuáhuitl is the Nahuatl (Aztec) word for the tree Castilla elastic, the Panama Rubber tree.
Oxib is Maya for ‘three’.
Páak’am is Maya for the cactus, ‘prickly pear’.
Pa-al (Mopan), Solarium rudepannum Dunal, is also known as susumba
(Spanish), and toom-pa’ap (Mopan).
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Paap is Maya for the Brown Jay, Cyanocorax morio. It is also called Piam Piam, and Urarca Pea.
Palitiks is Kriol for ‘polities’.
Par is Maya for ‘skunk’.
Pati’: This is a big, square-shaped piece of cloth that is tied around the shoulders.
Patzoj is Maya for ‘coitus’ or “sex’. As an exclamation and cuss word, it is used here to mean ‘fuck’.
Pay-che is the Mopan name for ‘skunk root’, Chiococca alba (L.) Hitchc. It is also known as ‘rat root’ (English), zorillo (Spanish).
Peeniwali is the Kriol word for ‘firefly’.
Pereetos is Kriol for a woman having great sexual ability.
Pet-kot: This is a garden surrounded by a low wall of stones. Pet is Maya for ‘circular’ and kot for ‘wall of loose stones’.
Piitor is a Maya name for the Keel-Billed Toucan, ramphastos sulfuratus. The Mopan call it Pän. Bill-bird is the Belizean nickname.
Pikaado is Kriol for ‘path or trail’.
Pikni is Kriol for ‘child’ or ‘children’.
Pipl is Kriol for ‘people’. By ‘City’, Teul is referring to Belize City where most of the country’s Kriol population lived.
Pitz is the name of the ballgame played by the Maya. The action of play is Ti Pitziil in Classic Maya, and Chaaj in Ke’kchi.
Pixtun is Ke’kchi for ‘thick tortilla’.
Pixoy is the Maya name for Bay Cedar, Guazuma ulmifolia. Bay Cedar is a scruffy-looking tree which produces copious dry, black, pod-like fruits (2-3 cm) which are covered in rough spikes. These fruits have a strong honey scent, and children like to eat them. However, they have a constipating effect when consumed in large quantities and this effect led to the Bay Cedar’s engaging Kriol names such as kaak batam (cork bottom wood), stuck-up-da-butt-nut, and plugabutt. (Trees of Belize - Kate Harris.)
Pohoc is Ke’kchi for the fine fiber material made from the henequen plant.
Pokono bwai (Kriol) is Bactris major, Palmae. Another name is Pokeno-boy. This palm was also called Pork and Dough Boy because tongs for cooking or removing coals were made from the fire-resistant wood of its trunk.
Pom is the resin or sap of the Copal tree.
Pooch is a tortilla (kua) rolled and wrapped in a waha leaf and cooked on the fire or boiled in a pot.
Póót is Maya for ‘blouse’.
Popoxkan is Maya for ‘biting ant’, like the fire ant.
Pub is Maya for ‘blowgun’.
Pu-ja is Mopan for Similax sp., also known as China Root, Red China Root, and ‘wild sarsa’.
Pujila’ is Maya for ‘waterfall’.
Pujuy is Maya for the Common Pauraque, Nyctidromus albicollis. Other names are Tapacamino and Pucuyo.
Pulch’ich’ is Maya for the sound of a waterfall or cataract.
Pumble stoan is Kriol for ‘pumice’.
Pumpu’ is Mopan for the Blow Fly.
Punani is Kriol for ‘vagina’.
Pu-ta is Mopan for ‘guava’, Psidium guajava. Other names are pici, pi-chi (Mopan), pa-tá-h (Ke’kchi), guayaba (Spanish).
Q’akoj is Maya for ‘pale brown’.
Q’än-jal is Maya for ‘yellow corn on the cob’.
Q’aq’-puaq is Maya for ‘gold’.
Q’eq is Maya for ‘black’.
Q’osibal is the Ke’kchi noun for ‘club, mallet; hammer; stick used for beating grain; cudgel’.
Q’oxow-chik is Maya for ‘to need to urinate or defecate’.
Q’uq’ is Maya for the Quetzal bird, a member of the trogon family.
Q’utuj is a drink made of corn dough and cacao.
Qas Nim Ha’ is Maya for ‘very large lake’ and in the Sisimito Series is the name given to Lake Izabal in Guatemala.
Qas Nim Wo-ja’ is Maya for ‘very large flood’. Qas nim is Maya for ‘very large’; wo-ja’ is Maya for ‘flood’ or ‘overflow of river’.
Quash is the Belizean name for the coatimundi, Nasua narica.
Raax Ch’ayom Puag is Maya for ‘Green Medallion’. In the Sisimito Series it refers to medallions made from jade (ya’ax-chich) on which were carved the images found on the Green Scapular. At times, Bas’ Green Scapular is called by that name.
Ralxik is Maya for ‘large snake’.
Renk is Kriol for ‘rank’.
Req’apunik is Ke’kchi for ‘brilliant’.
Req’apunik chun is used to mean ‘marble (shining limestone)’. Req’apunik is Ke’kchi for ‘brilliant’. Chun is Ke’kchi for “lime or limestone’.
Rio Blanco is Spanish for ‘White River’.
Robaal is Ke’kchi for the ‘snook’ fish. The Mopan name is Aj-no-chi.
Rok’men is Maya for ‘wet (place)’.
Roninz is Kriol for ‘diarrhea’.
Rum-p’ok (Ke’kchi) is Spondias radlkoferi Donn. Sm. Other names are hog plum (English), jobo (Spanish), puk (Mopan).
Sa’il-úúk is Maya for ‘underwear’.
Sak Witzil Baah is K’an II’s boyhood name.
Sacbeob is Maya for ‘road’.
Sachoj is Maya for ‘viper’ or poisonous snake like the Fer-de-Lance.
Sacpa or chí are Maya names for Craboo, Byrsonima crassifolia. The Kriol name is kraabu. The Wild Craboo fruit is sour and is called sour craboo. It is often soaked with very hot peppers and usually eaten while men are drinking.
Sak-ya is the Maya name for the Sapodilla tree, Manilkara zapota. It is also known as chico zapote, sapote, zapote (Spanish); sapadilli, cheekleh (Kriol); chicle, sapodilla.
Saks is Kriol for “socks’.
Saksa’ is Maya for ‘atol’, a traditional hot corn and massa (corn hominy flour) beverage.
Saq-ki is Ke’kchi for the ‘fiber of the maguey plant (agave)’. Ke’kchi for the maguey plant is ki-che’.
Saq-puaq is Maya for ‘silver’.
Sent is Kriol for ‘smell (odor)’. Renk is Kriol for ‘rank’.
Sha-an is the Maya name for the Bayleaf Palm, Sabal mauritiiformis ( syn S. morrisiand). In Kriol, it is called boataan.
Shaat-jekit is the Kriol name for a blood-sucking black fly.
Sheg is the Belizean name for the Neotropic Cormorant, Phalacrocorax brasilianus, also known as Comorán.
Shitninz is Kriol for ‘diarrhea’.
Shooz is Kriol for ‘shoes’.
Shot is Kriol for ‘shirt’.
Sib Juyub is used to mean ‘Smoke Hill’.
Síina’an is Maya for ‘scorpion’.
Soch is Ke’kchi for ‘gourd rattles’.
Sorosi (Spanish) is Momordica charantia L. Another name is condiamor (Spanish). Its mature yellow-orange fruit, containing seeds in a red pulp, are edible.
Sotz’ is Maya for the ‘common bat’.
Spudi is potato wine, a favorite home-made wine in Belize.
Suc-pic is Maya for ‘Underwear’.
Sutbal-ja’ is Maya for ‘whirlpool’.
Sutul-q’um is Maya for ‘hurricane’ or ‘tornado’. Here it refers to a tornado.
Suum is Maya for ‘rope’.
T’ix is Maya for ‘tapir’ or ‘mountain cow’, Tapirus bairdii.
T’oit’ik-jolom is Maya for a renowned warrior, soldier, one that has achieved great esteem, regardless of rank.
Tor Pa-raqan-ja is the name used for the passageway or chamber known as the Quiet Way or Paso Silencios in the Caves of Naj Tunich.
T’ot’ is Maya for ‘vagina’, but when used as an exclamation the vulgar form (cuss word) ‘pussy hole’ is meant. It is not to be mistaken with töt which is Maya for ‘conch shell’.
T’uyul is the Maya name for the ‘North Star’, also known as the ‘Pole Star’, in the constellation Ursa Minor.
Taat is Maya for ‘father’.
Tak sáamal is Maya for ‘Until tomorrow’.
Tak sáamal, Molly. Ka xi’ik te’ex hatz’utz
il. Tu láak’ k’iin … Ke’eleen is Maya for ‘Goodbye, Molly. Good luck. Until another day … I’m cold’.
Taman is Maya for ‘cotton’.
Tapesco is a triangular platform built above ground. It is used for sleeping and storing goods.
Temax. is the Maya name for the Temash River, Belize.
Tenleb is a mortar, a chalice-shaped hollow log, about thirty inches in height, used for threshing rice grain or coffee beans. The grain is pounded with a pestle, a three-foot wooden bar shaped like a drumstick, usually made from mahogany or cedar.
Teonanácatl is the Nahuatl name for the psychedelic mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
Tiáálinbil is a thick stew with meat seasoned with traditional herbal ingredients.
Tie-tie, Desmoncus schippii, Palmae., is also known as ‘Basket tie-tie’ because the vine, once stripped, can be split into strips for basket weaving. This is done by the Maya.
Tijobal is Ke’kchi for ‘classroom’ or ‘school’. In the Sisimito Series, it is used to mean ‘university’.
Tijonel is Ke’kchi for ‘teacher’.
Tijoxel is Ke’kchi for ‘student’ or ‘disciple’.
Tijoxel Ja is Maya for ‘Student House’. In the Sisimito Series, it refers to a complex housing the University level. Today, in Caracol, the complex is known as the Barrio.
Tin bin ichkíil is Maya for ‘I’m going to take a bath’.
Tin bin tz’oon is Maya for ‘I’m going hunting’.
Ti Pitziil is the action of play in the Maya ballgame Pitz.
Tlitliltzin is Nahuatl for the Mexican Morning Glory, Ipomoea tricolor. It was used in rituals to give the victim a “horror trip”.
To’bal-rib is Maya for ‘shield’.
Tok’ is Maya for ‘quartz or flint’. The important ingredient here is silica. It is being used for its healing qualities and as a desiccant.
Toni’co’oc is Ke’kchi for ‘coconut tree’.
Tóolok is Maya for ‘lizard’. Eutimio calls his penis Tóolok.
Toon is Maya for ‘penis’.
Töt is both Ke’kchi and Mopan for ‘conch shell’. It is not to be mistaken with t’ot’ which is Maya for ‘vagina’.
Tsu-jipox or oop are the Maya names for the Wild Custard Apple tree, An- nona reticulate L. Other names are ‘bullock’s heart’ (English), anona del monte (Spanish).
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