English Explanatory Dictionary

tzolkin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The Mayan calendar consisting of 260 days.

Word forms

tzolkin tzolkins tzolk'in

Etymology

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.

Related words

year bearer
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