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tzolkin.

The Mayan calendar consisting of 260 days.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. The Mayan calendar consisting of 260 days.

Where this word comes from

A neoterm coined by Western scholars from the Yucatec Maya words tzol (“count”) and k'in (“day”); it is unknown what the classical-era Maya natively called their calendar.

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