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

Translation: turkey
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of kutz

              

K&L.p15.#6                     MHD.BM4c

KUTZ                                KUUTZ

 

·     No glyphs given in K&H, BMM9, TOK, 25EMC; K&L is the only source listing this, and glosses it as pavo silvestre (= “wild turkey”).

·     MHD assigns it the code BM4c, read with a long-u kuutz:

o BM4a and BM4b are also the head of a turkey, but read AK’.

o MHD glosses it as (specially) male turkey (perhaps because of the extra prominence of the snood).

 

Syllabogram spellings of kutz

K&H.p11.fig3.#1     = JM.p139.#2

ku.tzu

 

·     Known from the Dresden Codex.

·     JM has typo and gives this as kutz’.