Now that we have some words to work with, we appreciate your prayers to memorize, memorize, memorize! Really, who would have thought that salt could be known as "atz'am," or an egg might be called a "säqmo'l"???
March 10, 2013
More than 1000 words
Michael has finally reached over 1000 K'iche' words in the dictionary he is writing! Due to his back pain, he uses the computer standing up.
Little by little, by studying, translating, spelling, and re-spelling, with the help of our teacher, Carolina, our K'iche' word list is growing. Words like "q'aq'," which means "fire", "jäb'," which means "rain", and "rch'il," which means "his friend." The dictionary is bilingual, written in K'iche' and Spanish, so that it will be more useful to the bilingual people here.
A couple of dictionaries already exist which were written for other dialects of K'iche', but Chichicastenango's words are often very different or are pronounced and conjugated differently.
Now that we have some words to work with, we appreciate your prayers to memorize, memorize, memorize! Really, who would have thought that salt could be known as "atz'am," or an egg might be called a "säqmo'l"???
Now that we have some words to work with, we appreciate your prayers to memorize, memorize, memorize! Really, who would have thought that salt could be known as "atz'am," or an egg might be called a "säqmo'l"???