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must look elsewhere for the true etymology of these expressions. 

 Unquestionably they had become domesticated in both Maya and 

 Nahuatl ; but there is some reason to think they were loan-words, 

 belonging to another, and perhaps more venerable, civilization 

 than either of these nations could claim. 



To illustrate this I shall subjoin several series of words de- 

 rived from the same radical which is at the basis of the word 

 nagual, the series, three in number, being taken from the three 

 radically diverse, though geographically contiguous, linguistic 

 stocks, the Maya, the Zapotec and the Nahuatl. 



From the llaya, of Yucatan. 



Naual, or nautal, a native dance, forbidden by the missionaries. 

 Naatil, talent, skill, ability. 

 Naat, intelligence, wisdom. 

 Naatah, to understand, to divine. 



Nanaol, to consider, to contemplate, to meditate, to commune with one- 

 self, to enter into oneself. 

 NoJi, great, skillful ; as noTi dhceh, a skillful hunter. 



From llaya Dialects. 



Quiche-Cakchiquel. 



Naual, a witch or sorcerer. 



Naualin, to tell fortunes, to predict the future. 



Qui naualin, to sacrifice, to offer sacrifices. 



Na, to feel, to suspect, to divine, to think in one's heart. 



Nao, to know, to be alert or expert in something. 



Naol, a skillful person, a rhetorician. 



Naotizan, to make another intelligent or astute. 



Natal, the memory. 



Natub, the soul or shadow of a man. 



Noh, the god of reason (" Genius der Vernunft," Scherzer). 



Noh, to fecundate, to impreguate {Popol Vuh). 



TZENTAL. 



X-qna, to know. 



X-qnaulai, to know often or thoroughly (frequentative). 



Naom, wise, astute {iiaom vinic, houibre sabio). 



Naoghi, art, science. 



Naoghibal, memory. 



Ohnaoghel, a wise man. 



Alaghom naom, the Goddess of Wisdom. 



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