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

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                                             

TOK.p22.r1.c4               BMM9.p15.r6.c3              Stuart (Coll-2)

                                                                                     CRN Panel 2 B6

MAAS                              MAS                                    SAK.MAS                              

 

·     No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, 25EMC.

·     The Stuart drawing in Coll-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”. EB.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-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-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 BMM9.p111.pdfp45.#9: ma’s (but no glyphs given); also in StuartEtAl-UE.p445.pdfp12.#1 (CRN Panel 2 A3).