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|'''[[:Category:Lehite GN|Lehite GN]]'''
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|City which sank into the sea, ca. 30 AD ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/9.7?lang=eng#6 3 Nephi 9:7])
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'''Etymology'''

Hebrew ''maqōm'', “place, station, town, village; holy site”,<ref>[[Koehler, Ludwig, and Walter Baumgartner, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. 5 vols. revised by W. Baumgartner and Johann J. Stamm. Leiden: Brill, 1994. trans. of 5-volume 3rd German edition.|''HALOT'']].</ref> also known from Syriac, Ethiopic, Arabic, and Phoenician with the analogous meaning; however, the vowel shift is rather dramatic.

Perhaps from Mayan ''mo'-k'u'-um'' "macaw nest" ([[Mark Wright|MW]], [[John Gee|JG]]).<ref>Erik Boot, ''A Preliminary Classic Maya-English/English-Classic Maya Vocabulary of Hieroglyphic Readings'' (2002), 59; Cecil H. Brown and Soren Wichmann, "Proto-Mayan Syllable Nuclei," ''International Journal of American Linguistics'' 70/2 (2004): 177. The ''-um'' ending is attached to words dealing with birds.</ref>

Cf. Book of Mormon [[JACOM|J<small>ACOM</small>]], [[CUMORAH|C<small>UMORAH</small>]], [[CUMENI|C<small>UMENI</small>]], [[CUMENIHAH|C<small>UMENIHAH</small>]], [[KUMEN|K<small>UMEN</small>]], [[KISHKUMEN|K<small>ISHKUMEN</small>]], et al. 

'''Variants'''

'''[[Deseret Alphabet]]:''' 𐐣𐐄𐐗𐐊𐐣 (moʊkʌm)

'''Notes'''
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