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

Alternative readings: UX / OX / HUX
Translation: Number “3”
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of uhx

                                                                                

K&H.p48.pdfp50.#4.2 = 25EMC.pdfp36.#3.5          25EMC.pdfp36.#3.6&7                     

UX / OX                                                                           UX / OX                                               

 

                                  

MHD.PL3a.1&2                           1082st                              T1082

HUX / OX                                       -                                        -

 

·     No glyphs given in K&L, TOK, BMM9.

·     25EMC.pdfp36.#3.1&2&3&4 are the boulder variant of IK’. 25EMC seems to suggest that these too can be read as UX / OX in the context of numbers.

·     In AT-E1168-lecture6.t0:39:45, the slide gives uhx / hux for “3” (in connection with the bar-and-dot notation).

·     AT-E1168-lecture6.t0:40:20-41:06: There is some variation: there are two types of uncertain things. One is some initial consonants may be glides or may be not present at all, like uk or wuk or huk, or uklajuun or wuklajuun or huklajuun, same goes for ux or hux – we don’t know. Unfortunately, most of the time when numbers appear in Maya writing, they appear just as numbers – they don’t spell them phonetically, with very, very few exceptions. So when they do spell them or when they add phonetic complements, then we have some clues. It is also possible that some numbers were not spelled in exactly the same way – we have some evidence of dialects: differences in pronunciation between different Maya sites – it’s also possible that they pronounced them differently.

·     AT-E1168-lecture6.t0:44:10-44:17: … the Wind God is the patron of the number “3” – here is the head of the Wind God. [Sim: There follows a theory about three wind directions and “3” (West, North, East, excluding South because wind and rain don’t come from the South, because of the Guatemalan highlands). This seems extremely speculative to me; see Sihoom in the CMGG.

·     Mnemonic: 3 o’clock is a good time to have afternoon tea with a doughnut / by getting your tooth (=IK’) into a doughnut.

·     Bonn does not seem to have declared a codepoint for the head variant of “3”:

o MHD.PL3 (in the form of PL3a) is a form of “3”, read HUX / OX.

o The MHD Concordance matches it to T1082.

o Bonn have retained 1082xx as a Bonn number (in the form of 1082st), but have not assigned it a reading of HUX or OX.