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CHORTI DICTIONARY
(from Wisdom 195O)
From microfilm of handwritten notes deposited at the University of Chicago
 by Charles Wisdom,
This dictionary was transcribed and transliterated:
 by Brian Stross
Department of Anthropology,University of Texas at Austin,Austin, TX 78712
 
TRANSCRIBER NOTE:
"ch" - is used here for Wisdom's "c with a hatchek","x" - is used here for his "š", and j is used here for his "x" (which I then transliterate to become an "h" in my normalized version of the Chortí)."tz" - is used here for his "c", and "tz'" replaces his "c'".Wisdom's "q" is transliterated as "k", and his "q'" as "k'" (since Chorti makes no k / qdistinction)
 
A B CH CH' E H I J K K' L M N OP Q Q' R S T T' TZ TZ' U W X YAaambi' [in-xap'-i'] 'last year, a year ago'ah- '[prefix denoting person, agent, doer, causer, male sex]'ah ha'tz'owar ah.ha'c'ouar 'Chicchan (one of his several names)'ah hor chan ah.hor.cha'n 'padrino'ah hut 'person'ah kilis 'a deity said to eat the sun and the moon (thus causing their eclipse)'ah kirikna'ar 'Chicchan (one of his descriptive names)'ah korom tz'i' ah.korom.ci' 'hunting dog'ah kuhkay ah.kuhkai 'a firefly-like insect'ahk'ab [ah-ak'ap'] 'night, evening, nocturnalhor ahk'ab 'midnight'umax ahk'ab 'a nocturnal monkey'ahk'ab burer 'night fever'ahk'ab mut ah.k'ap'.mut 'any nocturnal bird'ahk'aburer ah.k'ap'urer [ahk'ap'-p'urer] 'night fever'ahk'aburich ah.k'ap'urich [ahk'ap'-p'urich] 'night sweating'ahk'ab yark'ir ah.k'ap'yarq'ir 'any nocturnal insect'ah k'in 'the day', spirit of the sun (patron of diviners; padre eterno),diviner (sabio).hor ah k'in 'mid day, midday meal'ah k'optar 'any wild animal or fowl'ah k'ux [k'ux 'eat, gnaw on'] 'any thieving or gnawing animal'ah k'ux nal 'milpa pest'ah k'ux ak'ach ah.kux.aq'ach 'any chicken-stealing animal'ah masak 'yerba de la cruz (a wild vine)'ah mauh 'Duende (dwarf god of mountains and valleys, andprotector of cattle'ah mer chor ???? ('God of Remedies' cf. Wisdom 1940:399)ah mok 'sick person, patient'ne'n ah moken 'I am sick'ha'x ah mok 'he is sick'e yah mokob 'the sick'ah much 'frog [see also tuh.ce'] /tuhtze'/'ah patna'ar winikob [patnaar, milpa work, milpa-working; winikop'; men, people]:group of .... deities (Angeles Trabajadores) who bring rain and who cause
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