1881.] OOO [Brlnton. 



ing to the substructure of the language, does not appear with 

 the meaning of love in the dialects of the Maya stock. In them 

 the words for this sentiment are derived from other roots. 



Thus among the Huastecas, residing on the Gulf of Mexico, 

 north of Vera Cruz, the word for love is canezal. It is employed 

 for both human and divine love, and also means anything pre- 

 cious and to be carefully guarded as of advantage to the pos- 

 sessor.* There is no difficulty in following its development 

 when we turn to the Maya, which preserves the most numerous 

 ancient forms and meanings of any dialect of this stock. In it 

 we discover that the verb can means " to affect another in some 

 way, to give another either by physical contact or example a 

 virtue, vice, disease or attribute." f Here again we come upon 

 the precise correlative of the Latin afficio. from which proceeds 

 our "affection," etc. 



The Guatemalan tribes, the principal of which were and are 

 the Quiches and Cakchiquels, did not accept either ya or can as 

 the root from which to build their expressions for the sentiment 

 of love. In both these dialects the word for to love is logoh. It 

 also means " to buy," and this has led a recent writer to hold up 

 to ridicule the Spanish missionaries who chose this word to ex- 

 press both human and divine love. Dr. Stoll, the writer re- 

 ferred to, intimates that it had no other meaning than " to buy " 

 in the pure original tongue, and that the only word for the pas- 

 sion is ah, to want, to desire.^ In this he does not display his 

 usual accuracy, for we find logoh used in the sense u to like," " to 

 love," in the Annals of the Cakchiquels, written by a native who had 

 grown to manhood before the Spaniards first entered his couutry.§ 



*Thus: 



tatu canel ixalle, my beloved wife. 



■ma a canezal a Dios, dost thou love God ? 



Diccionario Huasteco Espatlol, por Carlos de Tapia Zenteno (Mex., 

 1767). 

 t A number of examples are given in the Diccionario de Motul (MS.). 

 X " Der blosse Begriff derjenigen Liebe, welche das lateiniscbe Zeitwort amare 

 ausdriickt, dem Cakchiquel Indianer fremd ist " Zur Ethnographie der Repub- 

 lik Guatemala. Von Otto Stoll, M.D., p. 146 (Zurich, 1884). 



\Xelogox ka chiri ruma Akahal vinak, " they were loved by the Akahal men." 

 Annals of the Cakchiquels, p. 126 (Vol. VI of Brinton's Library of Aboriginal 

 American Literature). In the Quiche Popol Vuh the word has the same mean- 

 ing as (page 102) : 



chi log u vach, their beloved fuce. 

 In fact, the word Dr. Stoll gives as that now usual among the Cakchiquels for 

 "to love "=to desire, in the Popol Vuh is applied to the price paid for wives 

 (p. 304) : 



rahilpu mial, the price of their daughters. 

 This word may be a derivative from the Mayaj/a, above mentioned. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXIII. 124. 3s. PRINTED DEO. 23, 1886. 



