What Kin means
One word for sun, day, date and time, the base unit of the Maya calendar: a kʼiin is a day, twenty of them a winal. It is not the same as the Nahuatl tōnatiuh, though the two languages both merge sun and day.
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Kin
“sun, day”
Say it
KEEN
Classical form
Yucatec Maya kʼiin (sun, day, time)
Names built from Kin
2 names on this site use 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.
Back to all Nahuatl and Maya words, or see how they combine in Nahuatl names.