Essays of an Americanist / I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic.

by Daniel G. Brinton

This word may be a derivative from the Maya ya, above mentioned.

[381]. De Naturâ Deorum, I, 44.

[382]. Gramática Quechua, por Dr. J. D. Anchorena, pp. 163–177 (Lima, 1874).

[383]. Ollanta: Drame en vers Quechuas du Temps des Incas. Traduit et commenté par Gavino Pacheco Zegarra (Paris, 1878).

[384]. Thus, from the Ollanta:

Ollantaytan munar ccanqui, thou lovest Ollanta! (line 277).

munacusccallay, my well beloved! (the Inca to his daughter, line 344).

munayman, I should prefer (line 1606).

Holguin, in his Vocabulario de la Lengua Qquichua, gives:

Dios munay, the love of God.