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

Translation: tribute, payment
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of tojool: None known.

Syllabogram spellings of tojool

                                                                                      

Tokovinine&Beliaev-PotR.p176.fig7.2d = Stuart-DoaTfJ                 

JNT Panel Fragment Bp5b (bottom right)             

u:to:jo:li                                                                      

 

                                       

Tokovinine&Beliaev-PotR.p176.fig7.2b = mayavase.com

K1728 long non-PSS text                         

u.<to:jo:li>                                                  u.<to:jo:li>

 

·     EB.p169.pdfp174.#1: tojol “payment, tribute”, giving JNT Panel Bp5b and K1728 as references.

·     Tokovinine&Beliaev-PotR.p175.c2.para2: Tojool — “payment,” “cost (of work),” and “price” — is a term attested in many Mayan languages (see Table 7.1), including colonial Yukatek (Ciudad Real 1995 [ca. 1590]:723) and colonial Tzeltal (Ara 1986 [1571]:385-386). Another example of tojool in Classic Maya inscriptions appears on a panel fragment that likely came from Jonuta (Figure 7.2d). […] // The use of two terms, patan and tojool, potentially implies different types of transactions. It is probably significant that patan may also designate labor (but not in the context where it is mentioned on the vase discussed above), whereas tojool may involve yubte’ tribute mantles as well as precious ikitz/ikaatz jade or other extremely high-value items. Consequently, tojool might have been a more generic term encompassing tribute proper and more exclusive gifts of ikaatz.