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

Alternative readings: CHAY
Translation: fish
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of kay

                 

TOK.p28.r1.c1               JM.p59.#1      

[KAY]                               CHAY / KAY    

 

·     No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, TOK, BMM9 as a logogram (current TOK example is taken from ka) – if not present in the inscriptions as a logogram for writing the Maya word kay, it could just mean that nobody had a name with “fish” in it (and no surviving scenes described actual fishes), not that it was no longer in use as a logogram (and only survived as ka).