api is undoubtedly from
ap, fault, evil, crime.
[31-1] May is allied to the verb meho, to go somewhere and return again. Hence may came to mean a cycle of years, months or days.
[31-2] Apuntamientos de la Historia de Guatemala, p. 28.
[32-1] “Chinamitl, seto o cerca de cañas,” from chinantia, to build a fence, to enclose.—Molina, Vocabulario de la Lengua Mexicana.
[32-2] Torresano, in his Arte de la Lengua Cakchiquel, MS., gives this word as ca, which indicates its probable derivation from the verb cae, to join together, to unite, “those united by a common tie.”
[32-3] Coto, Vocabulario de la Lengua Cakchiquel, MS., sub voce, Cuñado.
[32-4] Coto, u. s., s. v. Alguaçil. The word