CMGG entry for ch'at      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.)

Translation: dwarf; hunchback
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of ch'at: None known.

Syllabogram spellings of ch'at

                  

JM.p76.#4                 Coll-1 (artist unknown)

                                    YAX HS2 Step 7 W1

ch’a:ti                         ch’a:ti                        

 

·    Do not confuse this with the semantically related maas, which also means “dwarf”.

·    Note on JM.p76.#5: Sergei Vepretskii explains that this is not ch'at but is <u{h}:ti> with the skull-variant of u (or UH “necklace” used as a rebus). JM apparently misread the top element as ch’a and hence read this as <ch’a:ti> è ch’at. But this is wrong on the following points:

o The top element isn’t cha, because cha never has teeth on the bottom left, which this glyph does.

o Even if cha did have teeth, this would make the word chat, not ch’at.

o So instead, it’s just a misreading, and is actually uht-i.

 

JM.p76.#5

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