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

Alternative readings: HUT
Translation: face, visage, eye
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of ut

                                                                                                                                     

K&L.p24.#6  = 25EMC.pdfp49.#8                       TOK.p32.r2.c1                     BMM9.p13.r1.c2              SJ.p322.#3.2                    0650st

UT / ut ~ hut   UT / HUT                                       UT / HUT                              UT / HUT                            UT                                     -

 

                                             

BMM9.p13.r1.c1  = KuppratApp             SJ.p322.#3.1

UT / HUT                                                      UT

 

               

M&G.p102.#3                        Coll-1

                                                 NAR Stela 47 A4

                                                 <AJ:<XAAK/SAAK>:li>.<HUT.?.<CHAN:na>>

 

·     No glyphs given in K&H.

·     The two variants of UT / HUT are each listed twice in BMM9:

o BMM9.p13.r1.c1 = BMM9.p16.r7.c2.

o BMM9.p13.r1.c2 = BMM9.p16.r7.c3.

·     EB.p203.pdfp208.#6 gives that it could also be WUT? and gives 3 references to where it could be wu?-WUT?, glossing that as “eye, face”.

·     K&H, K&L, BMM9 dictionaries all give hut as an alternative pronunciation, and also add the meaning “visage”.

·     AT-YT2021-lecture13.t0:02:13-2:18: the slide says wuut for “eye, face”, but Tokovinine himself says: ut or hut is “eye”, but it can also mean “face” in general.

·     Bonn recognizes it as a separate glyph, but does not assign a reading.

·     Variants (2):

o A. “Boulder-u”-like:

§ One variant given by SJ is unique to SJ, possibly meant to be a flavour of the “boulder-u”-like one.

§ Dorota Bojkowska: caution – SJ.p322.#3.2 may be IL not UT as it seems to have inside an eye with optic nerve and the outer edge has a gap in the middle of the left, like IL.

o B. “3-triangle face”: note that the glyph given in BMM9.p13.r1.c1 is listed as an undeciphered glyph in K&L.p45:

§ Three “wedges” (= “pie slices”) = non-touching, forming 3/4 of a circle, with the fourth quarter missing.

§ Optionally, a triangular slit in the middle of the left side, with a non-touching dot in it. The dot might not be part of the logogram – so far seen only in real-life examples, not in any textbooks or workbooks. There variants are also suggestive of IL.

·     The M&G and NAR Stela 47 examples both write the name of “Sky Witness”, an early ruler of Kaanul. It’s probably the “face” / “eye” aspect of logogram HUT which influenced the coining of the “Witness” part. [Sim: I wonder why this is not read as <UT/HUT>.<CHAN:na> èUh/Hut Chan.]