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

Translation: hummingbird
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of tz'unun

                                                                                                                                      

K&L.p17.#2 = 25EMC.pdfp49.#2.1                  TOK.p27.r4.c2                 BMM9.p19.r5.c2 = 25EMC.pdfp49.#2.2                 25EMC.pdfp49.#2.3

TZ’UNUN     TZ’UNUN                                        TZ’UNUUN                       TZ’UNUN              TZ’UNUN                                        TZ’UNUN              

 

·    No glyphs given in K&H.

·    The bill of the hummingbird goes through the centre of an iconic flower (NIKTE’).

·    TOK gives tz’unuun, with -uu- (long u) in the second syllable.

 

Syllabogram spellings of tz'unun

JM.p252.#5

tz’u.{2}nu / tz’u.nu{n}