Reconstruction:Proto-Mayan/Am

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.

*Am

1. spider

• Kaqchikel: am, äm, än, on, öm
• Yucatec Maya: am

• Brown, Cecil H., Wichmann, Søren (2004 April) “Proto-Mayan syllable nuclei”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 70, number 2, →DOI, pages 128–186: “*Am ‘spider’”
• Kaufman, Terrence, Justeson, John (2003) A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], pages 698–699: “pM *7am [?diffused from Mije-Sokean *7:amu]”