The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán [Volume II: English-Tzotzil]

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The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantan with Grammatical Analysis and Historical Commentary VOLUME

II: English-Tzotzil

ROBERT M. LAUGHLIN with John B. Haviland

SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY • NUMBER 31

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CONTRIBUTIONS

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ANTHROPOLOGY

The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantan with Grammatical Analysis and Historical Commentary VOLUME

II: English-Tzotzil

Robert M. Laughlin with John B. Haviland

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS Washington, D.C. 1988

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31

Contents VOLUME II Page

English-Tzotzil Dictionary Foreword English-Tzotzil English-Tzotzil Thesaurus Outline Thesaurus

v vi 357 483 483 485

English-Tzotzil Dictionary

Pictograph of Santo Domingo (Codex Aubin)

Foreword The English-Tzotzil section of this dictionary is connposed of an alphabetical list, which then generates the Thesaurus. On the presumption that the cultural context of this dictionary is more readily available to anthropologists, historians, and linguists if presented in a thesaurus, I have modified Joe R. Campbell's Nahuatl adaptation of Voegelin and Voegelin's Hopi domains: I have added a section not normaUy included in cultiu-al schemes, but which the Tzotzil show to be an important and tantalizing one for understanding culture—^metaphoric expression. When consulting the English-Tzotzil section and the Thesaurus, the reader should be aware that the Tzotzil terms are given in the abbreviated form found in the Tzotzil-English presentation, i.e., with noun and adjective stems stripped of possession and plural markers and verb stems stripped of person, tense aspect, and plural markers. Accordingly, for a full rendering of many Tzotzil terms, the reader must consult the grammatical analysis to supply the missing affixes; e.g., king, given as "ba 'ojov," would appear in actual usage as "5^a'oy