CMGG entry for ich1      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.)

Alternative readings: ICHON / ICHAN
Translation: chest
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of ich1

                                                                                       

K&L.p25.#4.1&2&3                                                           TOK.p21.r5.c1               BMM9.p16.r6.c3              25EMC.pdfp35.#6                T704

ICHON?                                                                                ICH                                  ICHAN                                 ICHON?/ICHAN?

 

·    No glyphs given in K&H.

·    EB doesn’t list either ichon or ichan, but K&H.p104.#15 and all the other text-only dictionaries derived from EB give ichon? = “chest”, and also give yi-ICH(ON)?-NAL è y-ich-nal.

·    25EMC says that it’s “used in yichnal” without further specifying how.

·    K&L.p25.#4 explains that it was used as a rebus for yichnal ç yi-ICH(ON)?-NAL-la; also that “the second vowel is uncertain”.

·    Sim: if this glyph is ICHON or ICHAN, then yi-ICHON/ICHAN-NAL è yichnal by the phonological rule in Classic Maya of the deletion of the middle vowel in derivations or compounds which result in three syllables in a row (yaxuun-il è yaxnil, winik-il è winkil).