Las partes del cuerpo son partes del cuerpo humano como también del cuerpo de animales. Vistas como dominio cognitivo del lenguaje, forman un conjunto heterogéneo que incluye:
Los sustantivos que significan partes del cuerpo caen en todas las tres clases posesivas principales: neutrales, inalienables y alienables. Ya que estas son clases gramaticales, la asignación de un sustantivo a una clase posesiva es parcialmente arbitraria; parcialmente se hace en una base semántica.
| . | a. | – |
| b. | in k'ab mi mano | |
| . | a. | hunts'íit tso'ts un pelo |
| b. | in tso'tsel mi pelo | |
| . | a. | hump'éel koh un diente |
| b. | in koh mi diente |
La siguiente lista de términos de partes del cuerpo es bastante completa.(1) Ella está copiada de:
Lehmann, Christian 2002, Possession in Yucatec Maya. Erfurt: Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität (ASSidUE, 10) [descargar].
Ella queda, mientras tanto, en inglés.
1. Neutral
| ch'ala't | costilla | rib (2) |
| he' | huevo | egg |
| kama'ch | quijada | lower jaw |
| koh | diente | tooth; neb |
| maay | pesuña, casco | hoof |
| tsem | pecho | chest |
2. Inalienable
(inabsoluble)
| aak' | lengua | tongue |
| bobox | trasero | buttocks, rump |
| buklu'm ~ buklem | mollera | fontanel |
| chíim | buche; escroto | crop; scrotum (3) |
| chi' | boca | mouth |
| cho'n | vella púbica | pubic hair |
| he'h | ingle | groin |
| ho'l | cabeza | head; head hair |
| ich | ojo, cara | eye, face |
| íich'ak | uña | fingernail |
| iim | seno | bosom |
| íit | trasero | backside |
| kaal | cuello | neck |
| keléembal | hombro | shoulder |
| keep | pene | penis |
| kúuk | codo | elbow |
| k'áah | hiel, bilis | gall |
| k'ab | mano | hand, arm |
| k'o'ch | papada; gaznate | Adam's apple |
| máatsab | pestaña; antena | eyelash; antena |
| me'x | barba, bigote | mustache |
| mooch' | pata [de ave] | talon |
| mohton | ceja | eyebrow |
| mo'l | garra | claw |
| nabka'n | paladar | palate |
| nak' | barriga | belly |
| neeh | cola | tail |
| ni' | nariz | nose; snout |
| no'ch | barbilla | chin |
| oochel | sombra | shadow (4) |
| ook | pie, pierna | foot, leg |
| óol | ánimo | mind, spirit |
| óox | costra | scab |
| paach | espalda | back |
| paachkab | nuca | nape (5) |
| péek-ook | muslo | thigh (6) |
| peel | vagina | vagina |
| píix | rodilla | knee |
| pu'ch (7) | espalda | back |
| pool (8) | cabeza | head |
| p'u'k | mejilla | cheek |
| sak-óol | pulmones | lung |
| síim | moco | slime |
| táan (9) | frente | forehead |
| tuch'ub (10) | dedo mayor | index finger |
| túub | saliva | saliva |
| tuuch | ombligo | navel |
| tuunkuy (11) | talón, tobillo | heel |
| tuux | hoyuelo | dimple |
| t'óon | pantorrilla | calf-muscle |
| tselek | tibia | shin |
| ts'a'y | alveolos, colmillo | canine tooth |
| wi't' | tronco de la vértebra | rump (12) |
| xaaw (13) | pata [de ave] | talon |
| x-bak'éet (14) | nalgas | buttocks |
| xiik' | ala, sobaco, axila | arm-pit |
| xikin | oído, oreja | ear |
| ya'l | fontanela | fontanel |
3. Alienable
(convertible)
| baak | hueso | bone |
| bak' | carne | flesh |
| bóox | labio | lip |
| chooch | vísceras | intestines |
| hobon | vientre, entraña | abdominal cavity |
| k'ewel | piel | (animal) skin, hide |
| k'i'k' | sangre | blood |
| k'u'k'um | pluma | feather |
| mool | recto, ano | anus |
| ot' | piel [humana] | (human) skin |
| puksi'k' | corazón | heart |
| si'n | vértebra | backbone |
| táaman | hígado | liver |
| tso'ts | pelo | hair |
| tsuuk | panza, buche | paunch |
| ts'oy | cicatriz | scar |
| ts'o'm | sesos | brain |
| xiich' | tendón | tendon |
Notas
1. The list was completed using a course handout of Fidencio Briceño Chel. The first list of this kind is in Coronel 1620:107-110.
2. Ch'ala't is alienable in Bricker et al. 1998:359.
3. Originally, any bag.
4. Although oochel ends in -el, it does not belong to the alienable body-part nouns, for a form ooch does not exist.
5. Barrera Vásquez et al. 1980 has two examples with Poss pachkabil, from the same colonial source. In Modern Maya, the noun is inalienable.
6. Preferably of an animal. This is a real compound, not a stacked possessed nominal. For some speakers, it is in the alienable class.
7. Paach and pu'ch are largely synonymous.
8. Ho'l and pool are largely synonymous, although pool may be used more in figurative senses.
9. The term for 'forehead' in Colonial YM is lek.
10. Instrument noun derived in -Vb from transitive verb tuch' 'stretch'.
11. In Colonial YM, this was tonkuy (Arzápalo Marín 1995), composed of ton ? and kuuy 'ankle'. The first part was probably replaced, by folk-etymology, by tuun 'stone'.
12. u wi't' Poss si'nel/paach 'the lower part of Poss vertebra'
13. Mooch' and xaaw are largely synonymous, both meaning 'claw of a bird'.
14. Compound of x-bak'-el íit (F-flesh-Rel backside), which, apart from the prefix, is the lemma in Barrera Vásquez et al. 1980.
15. With allomorph -il instead of -el. The word now means neither 'body' nor 'skin', as in the older sources of Barrera Vásquez et al. 1980.