CA-AN=heaven. Maya, Yucatan, see pp. 278 and 288.
CANAL=Above. Maya, Yucatan.
CAN=title of culture-hero: KUKUL-CAN=the divine can, homonym of
can=serpent. Maya, Yucatan.
ZIUVA-CAAN=Colony founded in Yucatan, by Holon-chan-te=Peuh.
ANAHUAC: name of Mexican empire, usually loosely translated as a=water,
nahuac=by the water.
To this list should be added the following affixes or prefixes, denoting,
in each case, “place, land or region of.”
Egyptian: ta, for instance meh-ta or mah-ta=north; amen-ta=hidden region,
N. W.
Chinese: kwan=earth, land.
Persian: Kwan-iras or Hvan-iras=the name for Iran=“land of Iran”?
Japanese: han=empire, ken=domain.
Maya: tan, for instance Aman-tan or Xaman-tan=North.
Nahuatl: an, tlan or can, “land of, also mountain.”
Zuñi: wan=place of, for instance Halona-wan.