  == Etymology ==  The Yucatec Maya etymology is attractive and often cited by Internet sources, but the little-known attestation of shark in a mid-15th-c. English document rules out any such hypothesis. The word is embedded in a Latin text as le Shark. The ostensibly French definite article simply tags the quoted word as non-Latin (according to the Anglo-Latin conventions of the time) and does not imply a French etymology.   