K&L.p14.#6 TOK.p30.r5.c2 BMM9.p18.r1.c2
TIL [tihl] TIL TIL
25EMC.pdfp47.#2.1&2 = = K&L.p14.#6.2&1 JM.p232.#3 = K&L.p14.#6.2
TIL TIL
MHD.AS2a.1&2 MHD.AS2b.1&2
TIHL
· No glyphs given in K&H.
· The TIL “tapir” is used as a rebus for the homonym “to burn”, see M&G.p74.2 = M&G.p74.box2 (K’AHK’.<TIL{i}wi> <CHAN:na>.CHAAK) – confirmed as 25EMC.pdfp47.#2 lists “to burn, stoke” as one of the meanings of the tapir logogram.
· There appears to be the use of TIL to indicate an actual tapir in the name Bahlam Yaxuun Til, a ruler of TNA, on TNA Monument 168 B5.
· MHD:
o Distinguishes AS2a (as a rebus in the meaning “to burn”) from AS2b (as a logogram meaning “tapir”).
o Assigns a reading TIHL.
o Gives a significantly long list (9) of cognates in the Colonial and modern Mayan languages meaning “tapir” (tiil, tihl, tix, tixl) from Kaufman and many other works.
o Gives a significantly long list (9) of cognates in the Colonial and modern Mayan languages meaning “to burn” (tii, tihl, tilel, tilen, tilun, tilili, tilesan) from Kaufman and many other works.
· Features:
o Heart-shaped mammal ear.
o Broad, roundish, optionally trilobate nose.
o Optionally: sound waves rightwards, from right of mouth to right of head.
o Optionally 3 dots in a triangular formation in the eye (the triangle can point up or down).
· Do not confuse this with the visually similar CHITAM “peccary” – the distinguishing characteristics are that TIL:
o Has a non-trilobate nose (though some examples of trilobate nose for TIL also exist).
o Has a larger eye, optionally with the three non-touching dots in a triangular formation (the stylized “jaguar eye” variant) infixed.
o Dorota Bojkowska confirms that it’s difficult to give criteria to distinguish them.
· Pronunciation tihl given in K&L.p14.#6 as a transcription (they never show vowel length, aspiration or glottalization in the transliteration anyway).
HLHI (Kerr)
K791 I’1-I’2
K’UH{ul}:ti:li hi:HIX
MHD (W. Coe)
TIK Stela 5 A8
8.<ti+li>
· MHD gives ti-li è tihl (rather than til) for both K791 I’1-I’2 and TIK Stela 5 A8. The application of the Lacadena-Wichmann rules for this synharmonic spelling ti-li would normally yield til. This is perhaps the source of the alternative reading til for the logogram while historical reconstruction yields tihl. Curiously, MHD has tihl for both blmaya1 and blmaya2.