Crossword-Solution: HAAB 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

These days were therefore called _cuch haab_, "the bearers of the years" (_cuch_, to bear, carry, _haab_, year), and years were distinguished as "a year Kan," "a year Muluc," etc., as they began with one or another of these "year bearers." But the calendar was not so simple as this.

The first year they placed in the East [that is, on the Katun-wheel, and in the figures in their books], calling it _cuch haab_; the second in the West, called _Hijx_; the third in the South, _Cavac_; and the fourth, Muluc, in the North, and this served them for the Dominical letter.

Oxlahun ahau, buluc ahau uchci mayacimil ich paa yetel nohkakil; oxlahun ahau cimci Ahpula; uacppel haab u binel ma ɔococ u xocol oxlahun ahau cuchie; ti yanil u xocol haab ti lakin cuchie, canil kan cumlahi pop, tu holhun zip catac oxppeli, bolon imix u kinil lai cimci Ahpula; laytun año cu ximbal cuchi lae ca oheltab lai u xoc _numeroil anos_ lae 1536 años cuchie, oxkal haab paxac ichpa cuchi lae.

The expression _u xocol haab ti lakin cuchie_, "the reckoning of the year was toward the East," refers to the circle or wheel marked with the four cardinal points by which the years were arranged with reference to the four "year-bearers" Kan, Muluc, Ix and Cauac.

This complicated construction of the negative (_ma_), a future (_ococ_ from _ocol_) and the sign of the past tense (_cuchi_), also occurs on an earlier page (98), where we have the sentence _uacppel haab u binel ma ɔococ u xocol oxlahun ahau cuchi_, six years before the end of the 13th ahau.