·     Given in EB.p84.pdfp89.#5: jel- tv. to change; to adorn, giving as reference both PAL TC C6a and QRG Stela C B6a.

·     For QRG Stela C B6:

o The la infixed in the ja is not very clear in the drawings by Hunter and replaced by three dots in the drawing by Schele, but is clear in the drawings of Coll-2, VanStone-MC-A2012.t0:04:51 and the photograph.

o The presence of the ja shows immediately that the verb is in the passive form. This is not so clear in the case of PAL TC C6b, where an underspelled -a- has to be inserted to produce a passive form.

·     So far, I’ve only seen this verb in the context of the ritual replacement of an object, at around the time of the creation of the current universe (PAL TC C6b-D6a, and QGR Stela C B6). The object in both cases is the k’ob or k’ojob (see k’ob / k’ojob for a discussion about this).

·     Do not confuse this with WIIN:

o WIIN has a face in between the two arms of the top half of the X whereas JEL has nothing.

·     Do not confuse this with the visually and phonetically similar JAL – they are very different semantically: JEL = “to replace, change, adorn” whereas JAL = “to weave”. Found on PAL TC C6, PAL TS D16, QRG Stela C B6, 22 hits in MHD.

o Some sources do not distinguish JAL from JEL.

o For those which do, JAL consists of two strands actually “interwoven” whereas JEL consists of only two bars “crossing”.

o Prager-TS576.p2.fig1 distinguishes JAL/551st from JEL/153st. But Prager-TS576 gives the meaning of JEL as “reveal”.

o 153st shows up in Stuart-ANVotSk.fig3a&b, but not talked about in the text, because he’s only interested in the k’o-part after it.

o FK Malmö Workshop handbook (2017) p7.r1.c6 gives “JEL/JAL” as alternatives, so it apparently doesn’t distinguish JAL and JEL.

o K&L.p37.#2.1 and 25EMC.pdfp37.#1.3 are the “crossed-bar” (as opposed to the “interwoven strands”) glyphs, but are given as JAL not JEL. This might have been an oversight, or it might not wish to recognize this distinction, or it might have been a distinction which was discovered after the publication of K&L (2018) and 25EMC (2020).

·     Meaning:

o K&H.p91.pdfp93.#6: jel- tv 1) to adorn, dress, 2) to change, replace.

o Stuart-TPM.p166: jehl-(a)j-iiy = “(since) it was renewed”.