What Itz means
A word for the sticky, precious exudates of the world: sap, dew, milk, tears. Epigraphers link it to the itzam sacred-power complex and to Itza, the group behind Chichen Itza, though the name's exact reading is argued over.
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Itz
“resin, dew, sacred substance”
Say it
EETS
Classical form
Maya itz (resin, sap, dew, nectar)
Names built from Itz
1 name on this site uses this word.
Maya words you meet in Mexico
Yucatec Maya words that survive in place names, food and given names: cenote the sinkhole, balam the jaguar, nicte the flower, kin the sun, ha water, pib the earth oven.
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