What Ha means
Written ha or haʼ in colonial and tourist sources, jaʼ in the modern Yucatec alphabet. It is the -ha of Yaxha (green water) and Uxmal-area place names, and the Maya counterpart of Nahuatl ātl.
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Ha
“water”
Say it
HAH
Classical form
Yucatec Maya jaʼ (water, rain, lake), from Proto-Mayan *haʔ
Names built from Ha
2 names on this site use this word.
Maya words you meet in Mexico
Yucatec Maya words that survive in place names, food and given names: cenote the sinkhole, balam the jaguar, nicte the flower, kin the sun, ha water, pib the earth oven.
Back to all Nahuatl and Maya words, or see how they combine in Nahuatl names.