JM.p164.#2 MHD
PAL TXVIII Stucco glyph-block #444
lu:k’u <u:lu:k’u>.<ba:“BBT”>
· The meaning “mud” / “clay” is from JM.p164.#2.
· EB.p124.pdfp129.#6 gives “stucco”, with a single reference to PAL TXVIII Fallen Stucco.
· MHD searches:
o An MHD search on “bllogosyll contains lu k’u” returns only one hit, indeed, to PAL TXVIII Stucco, Bodega 174. MHD glosses this as “(the) plaster (text) of the ‘BBT’ “.
o An MHD search on “blengl contains plaster” gives only three hits, one of which is of course PAL TXVIII Stucco glyph-block #444. Unfortunately, the other two hits are for words which do not have an l- or -k’- or -k’ in them.
o An MHD search on “blengl contains stucco” gives no hits at all.
· The occurrence of lu k’u in the Chiik Nahb murals – a single column of four glyphs (lu k’u ba.na <i.<LOGOGRAM>>:ti is probably lu-k’u-ba-na è luk’ban = a verbal form related to “taking” or “leaving”, and semantically not closely connected the luk’ in the meaning of “plaster” (see Martin-HftPP.p63.pdfp2.col1.para3-p64.pdfp3.col1.para1). This is MHD “objabbr = CLKMSub14” and “blcoord = A04”, on the panel known as SE-S1.
· Summary: luk’ is a word that occurs very rarely in the Classic Maya inscriptions, with only one easily findable instance. It would appear that the fact that this inscription was executed in stucco was deemed sufficient (including taking into account the context of the sentence that glyph-block 444 occurs in) to allow the meaning “stucco” / “plaster” to be assigned – “the stucco of the Head BBT”. This is probably done taking into account Kaufman-APMED.p420.pdfp420.#2&3:
pCM *loop'
Hue *looq'
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POP |
lok' |
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adobe |
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MCH |
lo:q' |
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adobe |
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TUZ |
lo7q' |
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adobe |
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TUZ |
lo:q' |
pared, muro |
Wall |
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TUZ |
loq'.i.nhe:j |
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adobe |
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TEK |
looq' |
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adobe |
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MAM |
looq' |
lodo |
mud; muck; mire |
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MAMt |
loq'-e |
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adobe |
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MAMt |
loq'-e |
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pared |
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MAMo |
looq' |
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adobe |
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MAMc |
looq' |
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adobe |
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MAMi |
looq' |
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adobe |
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AWA |
#loq' |
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adobe |
pYu *luuk' [? <= pre-Ch'olan *luuk' ? <= pGTz *look' ? < pCM *looq']
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YUK |
luuk' |
lodo |
mud; muck; mire |
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ITZ |
luk' |
lodo |
mud; muck; mire |
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ITZ |
luk' |
suciedad |
dirt, dirtiness, filth, prurience |
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MOP |
luk' |
lodo |
mud; muck; mire |
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MOP |
luuk' |
lodo |
mud; muck; mire |
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MOP |
luk'il |
suciedad |
dirt, dirtiness, filth, prurience |
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MOP |
luk' |
sucio |
dirty, filthy |
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EpM |
<lu-k'u> |
/luuk'/ |
stucco |
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