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Yucatec|ˈjuːkətɛk|
Also Yucaˈteco and with lower-case initial.
[ad. Sp. yucateco, f. Yucatán, earlier Yocotán, adapted from a Maya name for the language of the Mayan Chontal Indians.]
a. An American Indian of the Yucatán Peninsula in eastern Mexico; such Indians collectively.
b. colloq. Any present-day inhabitant of the Peninsula or of the Mexican state of Yucatán in its northern part.
1843J. L. Stephens Incidents of Travel in Yucatan I. vi. 139 No native ever calls himself a Yucateco, but always a Macegual or native of the land of Maya. 1845Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc. I. 107 The Yucatecs differed materially from the Mexicans with regard to the time of the solar year. 1875H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States II. xxi. 675 So great was the horror in which the Yucatecs held this crime that they did not always wait for conviction,..but sometimes punished a suspected person. 1912Contemp. Rev. Feb. 257 The better Yucatecos do not lean to this profession [of clergyman], which is unendowed. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 v. 119 He was part-owner here with a yucateco who still believed in the Revolution. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 841 The Yucatec were the Classical Maya who were conquered by the Spanish and whose calendar, architecture, and hieroglyphic writing marked them as a highly civilized people. 1983Word Ways Aug. 152 Originate in Yucatan and you are a Yucatec.
c. The language of the Yucatán Indians, a Mayan language.
1940F. Johnson in Maya & their Neighbors vi. 107 The divisions of the Yucatec-speaking Maya are relatively indistinct. 1954J. E. S. Thompson Rise & Fall Maya Civilization i. 28 Yucatec is spoken by many whites and mestizos of Yucatán as a second language and is said to be easy to learn. 1977Language LIII. 296 Tall people can be reclassified by one of the long classifiers in Bantu.., Japanese, and Yucatec.
d. attrib. or as adj.
1875H. H. Bancroft Native Races of Pacific States ii. xxi. 665 A Yucatec noble who wedded a woman of inferior degree, descended to her social level. 1934A. Toynbee Study of Hist. I. 123 The Yucatec Society was apparently incorporated into the Mexic Society by conquest at about the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries of the Christian Era. 1956Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxvi. 25 It is their speech which Vasquez..describes as ‘yucateco Spanish’, characterized by Mayan phonemes and Mayan phrases. 1975Sci. Amer. Oct. 74/3 They spoke a dialect unlike the Yucatec Maya dialect heard generally throughout Yucatán; it was Chontal Maya, one of the dialects of the Cholan Maya group. 1983Washington Post 13 July e–3/1 You can be sure that Yucatec farmers don't waste maize on their cows. 1983Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Oct. 1090/5 The Yucatec city of Chichen Itza.
Hence Yucaˈtecan a. and n.
1869Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. XI. 5 The most important dialects of the Maya are the Yucatecan, the Quiche, the Cakcquichel, [etc.]. 1886U.S. Cons. Rep. lxvii. 495 A fair sample of Yucatecan agriculture. 1909Athenæum 4 Dec. 688/1 Of the Yucatecans themselves the authors have nothing good to say. 1931E. H. Morris Temple of Warriors xix. 228 Gold and copper were the only metals known to pre-Columbian Yucatecans. 1950Caribbean Q. II. ii. 30 Actual settlement was limited at first to the Belize district, and even that was made precarious by the attack of the Spaniards and Yucatecan Indians. |