[Aztlan] lak'

[Nick Hopkins]

John Hoopes wrote:

> What I'm curious to know is whether this interpretation has a basis in
> traditional usage or whether it's a modern invention.

John-- It may (or may not) be significant that in-lak'-ech is not among the dozen or so sample usages given in the Cordemex (1980) entries for lak'.  A quick scan of Barrera Vásquez' grammar sketch ("La lengua maya de Yucatán" in the Enciclopedia Yucatanense, 1946) did not turn up that expression, either, although there are numerous places where it could have been used as an example.  (The only instance of lak' that I noticed was the place name ka' lak' mul, "par de cerros juntos.")  And I don't remember the expression being included in the lessons of Spoken Maya, compiled at the University of Chicago in the 1960s.Can anybody cite an early attestation?  My knowledge of Yucatec Maya literature is limited... Nick Hopkins 
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