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tzolkin

tzolkin noun: the Mayan calendar consisting of 260 days.

Noun

tzolkin (plural tzolkins)

  1. The Mayan calendar consisting of 260 days.

Forms of tzolkin

pluraltzolkins
alternative formtzolk'in

Origin of tzolkin

A neoterm coined by Western scholars from the Yucatec Maya words tzol (“count”) and k'in (“day”); it is unknown what the classical-era Maya natively called their calendar.

Questions about tzolkin

What does tzolkin mean?
Tzolkin means the Mayan calendar consisting of 260 days.
What part of speech is tzolkin?
Tzolkin is a noun.
What is the plural of tzolkin?
The plural of tzolkin is tzolkins.

Words near tzolkin in the dictionary

  1. tznius
  2. tzniut
  3. TZO
  4. tzolk'in
  5. tzolk'ins
  6. tzolkin
  7. tzolkinex
  8. tzolkins
  9. tzompantli
  10. tzompantlis
  11. tzontle

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