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

Translation: cry out
Part of speech: Verb

Logogram spellings of k'u?: None known.

Syllabogram spellings of k'u?

                        

Zender-HWCtNY.t0:30:11 (Voss)                        Zender-HWCtNY.t0:31:01 (Voss)

DBC Incised Bone A3-A4                                      DBC Stela 19/11 A2-A4

u.<k’u:wi> cha.<CHAN:na> CHAAK:ki                u.<k’u:wi> CHAN.na CHAAK:ki               

 

·     Zender-HWCtNY.t0:30:11-31:42 explains that this word occurs in the name Uk’uuw Chan Chaak = “Chaak Cries (out) (in the) Sky” and is here in the antipassive form, marked by the wi inflection. Zender-HWCtNY gives two examples, both of which are given above.

·     Zender-HWCtNY describes the physical object on which the first example is found as a bone awl whereas MHD describes it as a femur (the photo shown on the slide on the Tokovinine lecture indeed seems to be more a femur than an awl). MHD “objabbr = DBCFem” with DBC = Dzibilchaltun, a site in Northern Yucatan.

·     Sim: this a verb appears not to have the common CVC phonological structure.