·     Martin-HftPP.p68.pdfp5.c2.para4 explains that AJ.a tz’a:mi è aj atz’aam, and that atz’aam [is] the word for “salt” / (Spanish “sal”) in almost all Mayan languages spoken today. So aj atz’aam = “he/she of the salt” = “salt person” = “salt seller”.

·     No listing for the atz’am or “salt” in EB, but Kaufman-APMED.p1240 -1242.pdfp1240 -1242 lists more than 50 words like atz’am or atz’aam meaning in the different modern Mayan languages.