CMGG entry for cheheen      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide and Concordance.)

Alternative readings: CHE'EN
Translation: say (so [/it] says, quotative particle)
Part of speech: Verb

Logogram spellings of cheheen: None known.

Syllabogram spellings of cheheen

                                   

JM.p60.#2                            JM.p60.#3.1                     JM.p60.#4

che.<e:na>                           che.<e:na>                       che.<he:na>

 

Houston-CC.p393.c2.fig13.2

che.<he:na> ‘God D’ ti.<CHAN:TE’> CHUWEEN.na

 

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che.<he:na>

 

·     The printed version of JM.p60.#4 gives che.<je:na>, but this has been amended to che.<he:na> in the updated version on the internet.

·     JM gives only che’en for all three cited examples, written with or without the he. [The older pronunciation could have been chehen, becoming che’en with shift from -h- to the glottal stop.]

·     Houston-CC.p393.c1.l-9: … cheheen “God D” ti-4-te’ Chuween, “so says God D to the 4 monkeys”, a set of beings tied to scribal craft. [ Why “God D” (Itzam/Itzam-Kokaaj) instead of just Kokaaj?]

·     Do not confuse this with the phonetically similar ch’een = “cave”. Cheheen/che’een = “to say” and begins with an unglottalized consonant, whereas  ch’een = “cave” begins with an unglottalized consonant. Furthermore, ch’een is written with a full syllobogram-only spelling che-he-na, while CH’EEN is a logogram. The fact that both have a “bound object” on the left and an animal head on the right make them also more similar to one another.