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

Translation: ravine, canyon; cleft; riverbank; fortress, wall; open
Part of speech: Noun / Verb

Logogram spellings of pa'

                                         

K&L.p38.#9.1                          TOK.p15.r3.c4                      BMM9.p10.r6.c4               25EMC.pdfp44.#5.1&2 = K&L.p38.#9.2&2

PA’                                            PA’                                         PA’

 

                  

MC.p159.c2.r1.3                         0299st

PA                                                  PA’

 

                                      

K&L.p38.#9.2-6                                                                                MHD.2S7.1&2&3                                                            0299ex

PA’                                                                                                      PA’ / pa                                                                             PA’

 

·      No glyphs given in K&H.

·      Boot-T299 is the paper which proposes and demonstrates that T299 is the logogram PA’, based on substitutions of this glyph with pa-a.

·      Variants (2):

o A. Stand-alone variant: basically a boulder outline with a split in the middle of the top, reaching in to anywhere from halfway down to the very bottom of the glyph.

o B. Attached / feeler variant: two feelers – left and right – which emerge while going upwards from a central point somewhere inside another glyph.

·      Meaning:

o EB.p144.pdfp149.#2: stream, creek, arroyo.

o K&H.p114.#3: ravine, canyon, cleft.

o 25EMC.pdfp44.#5: ravine, canyon, cleft, split.

·      Martin-BS.p4.c2.fn9: Pa’ has more than one sense in Mayan languages, and as a noun can describe an enclosing wall or fortress, or a bank of earth, such as one might find on a riverbank. Sim: perhaps “split” è “split in earth caused by river” è “riverbank” è “wall” è “fortress”.

·      Do not confuse the “feeler” variant of this with one of the less common variants of SIH = “to be born”. Both are two “leaves” or “feelers” emerging upwards from the central point of a boulder-outline. But the two mirror-image elements of SIH tend to be broader and more leaf-like, while the two mirror-image elements of PA’ tend to be thinner and more feeler-like.