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

Translation: south
Part of speech: Adjective

Spellings of nohol

                                                                                             

JM.p186.#2 = MC.p124.r7.c2                    Skidmore-ULoENR.p28.fig1            

                                                                       NAR Altar 2 A5

<no[NOH]>:la                                              no[NOH]                                            

 

                                                                                

MC.p124.r7.c1 = Stuart-GfRaL.p1.fig2a                         MC.p124.r7.c3                             Stuart-GfRaL.p1.fig2b

<no[NOH]>:la                                                                      no[NOH]{ol}                                 <no[NOH]>.lo

 

                             

Stuart-TPM.p120 ( Schele) = Greene

PAL TC A15                           

NUK?.NOH:la                       

 

·     No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, BMM9, TOK.

·     History of pronunciation:

o JM (2002): nojol.

o Stuart-GfRaL.p2.l+2 (2002): nohol.

o Skidmore-ULoENR (2007): no pronunciation given.

o BMM9, K&H, K&L (all post-2018): nohol.

So the -h- form is taken to have superseded the -j- form.

·     no seems to be always present but la or lo at the end is optional. For these reasons, Stuart-GfRaL views the first as an initial phonetic complement, and the second as actually spelling the final – (with underspelling when absent). This changes what was originally NOHOL to just NOH, with the -l not being inherently present in the logogram.

·     PAL TC A15 is from the 819-day cycle expression.

·     Stuart-GfRaL.p2.para2.l+4: The root of the term is noh, which has the related meanings of “large, great,” “principal”, or “right-side”.

·     Stuart-GfRaL.p2.para2.l+7: The flanking “u” shapes [Sim: “horseshoes”] on the “south” glyph probably constitute a separate sign [we shall see that they never appear with the supposed NOH logogram outside the context of the directional term], and they are known in other settings to be parts of the syllables xo, no, and sometimes jo. In the south glyph, I wonder if it might be an abbreviated form of no, producing a full spelling no-NOH-la or no-NOH-lo, for nohol.