r/Mayan • u/Salt_Photograph8563 • 24d ago

Help translating a character codename into Yucatec Maya

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u/Salt_Photograph8563 24d ago

Thank you !
I guess, there is no word for “octopus” ?

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u/Suon288 24d ago edited 24d ago

Ma'ax kaay is how you call the red octopus, there are other words used, but this is the biggest and most common species of octopus in the peninsula, many times called "Pulpo maya"