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

Translation: rain; wet
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of ha'al

                                           

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CNC Panel 1 D6-C7                                        PNG Panel 2 J2-K1                                     K4996 F

YAX:HA’{al} CHAAK.ki                                   YAX.<HA’:la> CHAAK                                 IX.<HA’:la>

 

                                                                                                                                 

K&L.p8.#2.2                             TOK.p34.r4.c4                     BMM9.p20.r2.c2                   S&Z.p163.#67 = 25EMC.pdfp34.#5.4                 YUL Lintel 1a C1-D1          

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Coll-1 & Coll-2

HA’AL                                        HA’AL                                    HA’AL                                      HA’AL                                                                       <ya{x}>:HA’AL:*la? CHAAK:ki        

 

                         

K&L.p8.#2.1                             25EMC.pdfp34.#5.1-3 = K&L.p8.#2.1-3                   

HA’AL                                                                     

 

K&L.p8.#2.3

HA’AL

 

·     No glyphs given in K&H.

·     Variants (4):

o A. Water – in the appropriate context (e.g. in the name Yax Ha’al Chaak), just the HA’ can already write ha’al = “rain” (perhaps with the help of a la, but even without it):

§ The distinction between ha’ = “water” and ha’al = “rain” might be related to noun vs. adjective with ha’al being a substantivized adjective.

§ Perhaps the distinction between the two is more a product of categorization within European languages than their being intrinsically that different anyway.

o B. Full form – features:

§ Top: boulder with blunt ended crescent / bold-U (short sides) in the middle, optionally cross-hatched.

§ Bottom: three triangular elements (optionally slightly rounded), each one either:

·       With parallel horizontal lines at an even distance from one another, or

·       Consisting of separate, stacked, (slightly curved) rectangles, decreasing in width as they go downwards, creating a triangular effect.

o C. Reduced form:

§ The three triangular bottom elements of the full form.

o D. A (mostly codical) form resembling three two-pronged forks, pointing upwards, and at a slight angle to the vertical.