TOK.p7.r1.c4 BMM9.p10.r6.c2 JM.p177.#1 JM.p177.#2 JM.p177.#3 JM.p178.#1
NAAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
K&L.p29.#4 MC.p165.r1.c2.1&2&3
NAH NAAH / na / NOJ?
MHD.1G2a.1&2 MHD.1G2b.1&2&3 0004vb 0004vl 0004vr 0004vt
NAAH NAAH NAAH NAAH, na NAAH, na NAAH, na
PY5.1&2&3 0004vs 0004vs
NAAH NAAH NAAH
0004vc
NAAH
· No glyphs given in K&H.
· AT-YT2021-lecture17.t0:23:05-23:55: And very much like [in] present-day Mayan languages, the term “house” naah actually refers to something more than a single building. Like archaeologists... we usually call it [a] “patio-group” – so it’s a group of houses sharing a courtyard. In [the] present-day Ch’orti’-speaking area, a house will also include the courtyard in front it – so it would actually be the “edge of the house”: ti’ naah for the “mouth of the house”. […] So the palace at Sufricaya (where I work) is called “Three Platform House”, basically there are three platforms around the courtyard. The palace at Palenque – initially at least – was called the “Five Platform House” – presumably the enclosed space with some central buildings in the middle.
· Variants (3):
o A. Reduced: “axe-blade”.
§ MHD distinguishes between MHD.1G2a and MHD.1G2b, though the difference is not clear to me.
§ The difference isn’t a “left-pointing blade” vs. a “right-pointing blade” (which is the case for Bonn’s 0004vl vs. 0004vr.
o B. Head: “axe-blade” + human-head:
§ The head can be below or to the right of the “axe-blade”.
o C. Head-only: Just the human-head, without the “axe-blade”.
· MHD statistics (2024-05-17) – the reduced variant is much more common than the head variant. The head-only variant is probably very rare – MHD doesn’t even recognize such a variant, it’s only given by Bonn:
o Reduced (“axe-blade”): 1G2a (290 hits) + 1G2b (230 hits) = 520 hits.
o Head (“axe-blade” + human-head): PY5 = 28 hits.
o Head-only: no statistics available, as MHD doesn’t have a codepoint for it.
o MHD.1G2s is the “axe-blade” as syllabogram na. That doesn’t have that much to do with the “axe-blade” as logogram NAAH, but the statistics are vaguely of peripheral interest here: 1G2s = 35 hits, so much less common than the logogram reading.