English Explanatory Dictionary

Tz'utujil

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a Native American people, one of the 21 Maya ethnic groups that dwell in Guatemala, primarily around Lake Atitlan.
name
  1. The language of the Tz'utujil people.

Word forms

Tz'utujil Tz'utujils Tzutujil Tzutuhil Sutujil Zutugil Zutuhil

Etymology

From Spanish, from Tz'utujil, from tz'utuj (“cornfield flower”) + -il (a suffix that indicates abstraction). Literally it means “beautiful cornfield flower”.

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