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TiM-NUE-Hi. The name, appellation. 



To-o-Ti. A tongue, a peninsula. 



To-ME. Near, close at hand. 



Tu-TAN. Six. 



TU-DU-TAN. Eight. 



Tzoi-Koi. The chest, the thorax. 



Tzu-i. Tobacco. 



TzAP-qUES-MUE. 

 TZI-HE-TE. 



Tzu-E. Night, darkness. 



TzuEN-PA. To sit, to recline at ease. 



Tu. The dew, a drizzling rain. 



Tu-ANK-sHAN. The wet season. 



Tu-quE. Food, the terrapin. 



Tus. The first personal pronoun, /. 



Tu-MAH. One, the first. 



TzECK. The abdomen, bellj, a bel- 

 lows. 



Tzu-Tzi. The mammae, a virgin's 

 breast. 



Tzi-HE-TE. Daily, day by day. 



Tzi-HE-UN. The afternoon, evening. 



Tzu-MA. Snow, frozen water. 



Tzu. A stone, cliffs of rocks. 



Tzu-MA-quE. A mountain, a height. 



TzD-TZHUS. Sky blue, pale blue. 



Tzu-TZHAN. Dark green, sea-green. 



U. 

 U-KUM. A cucumber, squash. 

 Up-sah. Cloud, haze, mist, obscure. 

 U-i. No, a negative reply, not. 

 Uk-oi-pa. To drink, to be drunk. 

 U-na-a-pa. To lie, speak falsely. 

 Uhp-sa-pa. Gloomy, dreary. 



V. 

 Va-co-tzum-ne. High palace, 



heaven. 

 Van-ti-vi-ki. Thumb, great finger. 

 Va-ok-senk. Small, very little. 

 Vak-senk. Young, of tender age. 

 Vak-senk-ko-mas-u-na. a tender 



girl. 

 Vak-senk-ben-ke. Kind, tender 



people. 

 Va-i-e. Cold, chilled, shivering. 

 Va-kus. All, everything, the whole. 

 Van-pa. To sing; melody, music. 



Vau-hoh-pa. To cry, to mourn, to 

 weep. 



Va-na-ka. The face, the front part. 



Vi-TAM. The eye, power of vision. 



Vi-Ki. The fingers, tendrils. 



Vi-AH-KU. The pheasant, wood-hen. o. 



Vens-tu-tan. Seven, seventh. 



Ves-tenk-ep-shan. Forty, for- 

 tieth. 



Ves - tenk -ep-sko-mak-an. Fifty, 

 fiftieth. 



ViN-TU. The neck, a connecting 

 link. 



ViN-TZU-MA. The forest, wilderness. 



Vehn-hen. Youthful, recent, lately. 



Ya-ve-co-tzam-ne. The high dwell- 

 ing, exalted heavens. 



Ya-mi-ne. To make great, to glo- 

 rify, set apart. 



Ya-ta-co-ya-tes. 



Ya-tu-que. Amen, be it so. 



Ya-hue. For, because of, on ac- 

 count of. 



Ya-ka-u-pa. To slay, to kill, to 

 murder. 



Yo-MA-u-NA. A young woman, a 

 wench. 



Yuc-POi-PA. To flee away, to make 

 haste, run. 



Yu-MA-HA-KU. The naming of, sta- 

 tion, power. 



YU-MA-HA-CUI. 

 YEC-NAS-qUE-SI. 



Yenk. Black, a negro, thick dark- 

 ness. 



YuE-PUEH. This, that, they. 



YsH-OY. Debts. 



Z. 



ZiN-CA-DU. A species of musquito, 

 a stinging insect. 



Zu-MA. A wild-cat, the American 

 tiger. 



Zi-NA-KA. The papaya, a tropical 

 fruit. 



Zo-quE. The men, the great brave 



A brief Essay on the Southern Mexican and Central American 

 Languages. 



There are more than twenty-five distinct languages spoken 

 between the isthmus of Tehuantepec and the isthmus of Panama. 

 It has been claimed by some investigators that they are all inti- 

 mately related, and constitute but one family of languages, which 



