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Definition of Kekchi
1. Noun. A member of a Mayan people of north central Guatemala.
2. Noun. A Mayan language spoken by the Kekchi.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kekchi
Literary usage of Kekchi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1902)
"... The Kekchi vowels are the same as in Spanish ; they are distinctly uttered,
whether accented or not. b at the end of words is pronounced surd ; eg, rib, ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1909)
"With a type of cotton so different from the Egyptian as the Kekchi, ... The small
size of the Kekchi plants and their broad-lobed hairy leaves would enable ..."
3. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1907)
"Acalanes {ja be n nicht nur ihre Sprache zu gunsten der herrs- chenden Kekchi,
sondern auch ihre ethnologische Eigenart allmählich auf-ein Process, ..."
4. The Wild and Cultivated Cotton Plants of the World: A Revision of the Genus by George Watt (1907)
"I much regret not having seen an authentic specimen of the kekchi cotton, ...
Among these obscure plants (? species) no doubt the kekchi cotton may find its ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"When our United States Upland cottons are crossed with the Kekchi cotton of
Guatemala the hybrids have lint shorter than either parent, but when the Kekchi ..."
6. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1909)
"with the more primitive form shown in the Kekchi parent and that this incompatibility
might lead to the suppression of the bractlets even in plants that ..."
7. Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America and Their Geographical by Cyrus Thomas, John Reed Swanton (1911)
"Sapper's map places the area slightly farther from the river, Kekchi n (Synonyms:
... Kekchi was spoken by a considerable tribe in central Guatemala. ..."
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