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

Translation: foot
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of ook

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JM.p300.#1              

yo.<OK:ki>

 

·     This is actually less a logogram spelling and more the use of the logogram OOK = “dog” as a rebus to write ook = “foot”.

·     MHD maintains a strong distinction between the short-o and long-o:

o OK = “dog””.

o OOK = “foot”.

However, there appears not to be universal consensus on the length of the vowel:

o 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).

·     The reading of “dog” with long-o is perhaps because of the disharmonic spelling OK-ki, as in the JM example above, if the Wichmann-Lacadena rules are applied.

 

Syllabogram spellings of ook

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JM.p299.#4                  MC.p57.ex5

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yo:ko                             o.ke