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

Alternative readings: ULUX
Translation: carving
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of uxul: None known.

Syllabogram spellings of uxul

                

JM.p260.#1               AT-YT2021-lecture11.t0:28:06

u:<xu[lu]>                  yu:<xu+lu> wa:ja:la

 

                                                                                                     

Mathews                              Stuart                              ZenderEtAl-SSw.p46.pdfp12.col1.fig10 (Martin)                  Safronov                                     Martin

BPK Lintel 2 C1                    CAY Altar 4 C1               CLK Stela 51 G1 & H3                                                                 Kimbell Panel J1/I1                   Randel Stela K1

yu.<lu:xu>                            yu.<xu:lu>                      yu.<xu[lu]>           yu.<xu[lu]>                                                    yu.<xu+lu>                                  yu.<lu:xu>

 

                                                                  

Coll-1                                   Graham                             Graham                                MHD (Morley)                   Graham(?)             

YAX Lintel 24                      YAX Lintel 25                    YAX Lintel 26                       YAX Lintel 45                      YAX Lintel xx         

yu.<lu:xu>                           yu.<xu:li>                          yu.<xu+lu>                          yu.<xu[lu]>                          yu.<xu+lu>            

 

                       

Safranov              = Schele                              Safronov

Kimbell Panel J1                                              Zürich Panel E5-F5

yu.<xu+lu>                                                       u.lu xu.1?

 

·    It is commonly xu followed by lu, but they can also be found in reverse order.

·    AT-YT2021-lecture11.t0:28:06-28:38 explains that: it seems to be a couplet that actually means … ux is “to carve” and ul is “to polish”, so “carve- polish”. Sometimes it is uxul and sometimes it is ulux –the order of these words doesn’t matter, and then you add a suffix to it -waj which just seems to be deriving a verb out of it or [rather] a verb and then a noun, [and then a further suffix -al which derives] then a noun yu-xu[lu] wa:ja:la è yuxul-wajal).

·    Note that in an expression like baah uxul, the word seems to mean “carver”/“sculptor” rather than “carving”.

·    Curiously, EB does not list ul or ux separately. Instead, there is EB.p213.pdfp218.#5: yul = “polished object”, with (possessed form?) uyul or uyulil.