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| The ca 'comb affix' (T25) has as its head form a fish head. The word for fish in Yucatec is cai or cay . And in Chol chay . We have no doubt that the correct reading for T25 is the phonetic ca . The head variant is T205, an 'affix' in Thompson's catalogue: he has no 'main sign' for it, although we suspect that some of his xoc fish heads (T738) are actually ca heads just as come of his T205's are xoc heads. |
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