a word from Vocabulary Q'eqchi' |Word meaning:||cargar sobre la
cabeza| This field gives a bibliographical source for the word.
|Sam Juárez et al. (1997)| For the purpose of the Age field,
each node in the Mayan family back to which a word can be traced
constitutes the age. These nodes are translated into absolute
dates from glottochronological estimates that were produced by
Terrence Kaufman in 1968 as cited, without bibliographical
reference, in Anonymous 1976. This estimates has advantages over
those of Kaufman 1976, where not all nodes are dated (for
instance, the breaking off of Q’eqchi’ from K’iche’an is not
dated), and where only the time of breakup of languages is given
rather than intervals for the existence of some proto-languages.
The nodes could be translated into other dates from other
estimates (e.g., those used by Brown in his contribution on
Tzotzil to the present project). Kaufman’s dates are presumably
produced following standard methodology as described in Swadesh’
works. As mentioned, for