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

Translation: dog
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of ok

                                          

K&L.p13.#3                                                                                                                 TOK.p31.r2.c3                    

OK (not TZ’I’)                                                                                                              OOK / TZ’I’                           

 

                              

Zender-TMMD.p5.fig1.r1 = Zender-TMMD.p5.c1.l-10           

OOK.ki                                             

 

                    A black and white drawing of a dog  Description automatically generated                

TOK.p31.r3.c1                   BMM9.p17.r7.c2             

OOK / TZ’I’                         OOK/OK (not TZ’I’)                                      

 

·     No glyphs given in K&H.

·     JM.p195.#4 – day name.

·     SJ.302.3.

·     Variants – there are two subtle variants:

o Longish snout: snout points downwards after leaving the face at an angle.

o Short (almost non-existent) snout: snout points to the left.

·     OK vs. TZ’I’:

o K&L and BMM9 both distinguish OK from TZ’I’ as two distinct logograms.

o Conversely, TOK and S&Z both explicitly indicate that they can be used / read interchangeably.

o For the sources which make this distinction, it looks like TZ’I’ has a snout pointing diagonally downwards (northeast-to-southwest axis) whereas OK has a snout which is horizontal and points directly to the left.

·     Vowel length - long-o vs. short-o - there appears not to be universal consensus on the length of the vowel:

o MHD is quite clear on this: OK = “dog” vs. OOK = “foot”.

o However, TOK (which writes vowels as long when they are deemed to be long) gives (only) OOK = “dog”.

o BMM9 gives both, with OOK before OK (though there may be no particular significance in the order).

·     See tz’i’ = “dog” for more information.