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

Translation: sour; fermented
Part of speech: Adjective

Logogram spellings of paaj: None known.

Syllabogram spellings of paaj

MHD (Kerr)

K9244 G-H-I-J

yu.<k’i:bi> ta pa.ja u{l}

 

·     Found in the PSS of ceramic vases.

·     A search in MHD on “blengl contains sour” yields 17 hits (all glossed as “sour/fermented”).

o All 17 have “objclass = portable object”, so presumably they’re all containers of some sort, probably ceramic.

o Restricting to “objname contains bowl” yields 13 hits, so the vast majority of vessels for sour foods/drinks are bowls.

o Most of the PSS’s hence probably have yuk’ib ta paaj ul = “drinking vessel for sour/fermented atole”.