CMGG entry for maas      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.)
From: Lee, S. Classic Maya Glyph Guide, Part 1. Amsterdam: Self-published, 2023-2025. Contact: maya.glyphs@yahoo.com.
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Alternative readings: MA'AS
Translation: dwarf
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of maas

A black and white drawing of a face  Description automatically generated                   A black and white drawing of a face  Description automatically generated                                             

TOKhttps:/​/​www.mesoweb.com/​resources/​catalog/​Tokovinine_​Catalog.pdf Beginner's Visual Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs (Tokovinine; 2017).p22.r1.c4               BMM9BMM9.pdf 9th Bratislava Maya Meeting (Beliaev, Safronov; 2019).p15.r6.c3              Stuart (Coll-2Author's image collection, Part 2)

                                                                                     CRN Panel 2 B6

MAAS                              MAS                                    SAK.MAS                              

 

·    No glyphs given in K&Hhttps:/​/​www.mesoweb.com/​resources/​handbook/​IMH2020.pdf Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs (Kettunen & Helmke; 17th revised edition, 2020), K&LKettunenLacadena.pdf Methods in Maya Hieroglyphic Studies (Harri Kettunen & Alfonso Lacadena; 2018), 25EMC25EMC.pdf 25th EMC Beginner's Workshop Handbook - Boundaries, Frontiers and Divisions in the Maya Area and Beyond (Tuszyńska, Hamann, Bojkowska; 2020).

·    The Stuart drawing in Coll-2Author's image collection, Part 2 is called Panel XX – perhaps because it was given this designation at a time when the numbering of CRN panels was very uncertain and unstable. At any rate, this is now called CRN Panel 2.

·    Do not confuse this with the semantically related ch’at, which also means “dwarf”. EBhttps:/​/​www.mesoweb.com/​resources/​vocabulary/​index.html The Updated Preliminary Classic Maya ‐ English, English ‐ Classic Maya Vocabulary of Hieroglyphic Readings (Boot; 2009).p219.pdfp224.#22: dwarf ch’at, mas.

·    Dorota Bojkowska: the word ma’as means “dwarf”.

·    Do not confuse maas/ma’as = “dwarf” with the phonetically similar maax/max = “spider monkey”. Do not confuse them with the visually similar xi.

o There is the possibility of confusion because the xi of ma-xi is a skull-like head, and the logogram for MAAS/MA’AS is also skull-like.

o One apparent difference is that the head in the xi does not have an AK’AB (“darkness”) property marker whereas the MAAS/MA’AS does have.

o MAAX has an ear, whereas MAAS/MA’AS doesn’t.

 

Syllabogram spellings of maas

                   

Stuart (Coll-2Author's image collection, Part 2)                    Safronov

CRN Panel 2 A3                 CRN Panel 3 D8

SAK.<ma:su>                      SAK.<ma:su>

 

·    The substitution of the logogram for the pure syllabogram spelling ma:su in the CRN ruler Sak Maas’s name helps to determine the pronunciation of the logogram.

·    The Stuart drawing in Coll-2Author's image collection, Part 2 is called Panel XX – perhaps because it was given this designation at a time when the numbering of CRN panels was very uncertain and unstable. At any rate, this is now called CRN Panel 2.

·    The Wichmann-Lacadena rules result in ma’as, rather than maas.

·    Listed in BMM9BMM9.pdf 9th Bratislava Maya Meeting (Beliaev, Safronov; 2019).p111.pdfp45.#9: ma’s (but no glyphs given); also in StuartEtAl-UEhttps:/​/​www.academia.edu/​37609405/​Un_​Esquema_​de_​la_​Historia_​y_​Epigraf%C3%ADa_​de_​La_​Corona Un esquema de la historia y epigrafía de La Corona (Stuart, Mathews, Canuto, Barrientos, Guenter, Baron; 2014).p445.pdfp12.#1 (CRN Panel 2 A3).