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

Translation: spider; beetle
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of xim

                                                                               

YAX Lintel 14 F2-F4                                                                         YAX Lintel 14 G4-G5                                                        M&G.p131.box3

IX.<CHAK:XIM> IX.sa.ja{l} ya.<?:AJAW>                                      <CHAK:XIM>.<<sa[ja]>:la> u.<MAM:AJAW>               IX.<CHAK:<XIM.mi>>

 

·     Many epigraphers read JOLOM or JOL (formerly CHAM), XIM has been proposed by the Russian school, but no paper yet.

·     The alternative reading is probably a result of dissatisfaction with JOLOM as a solution to the mi end phonetic complement of the skull glyph.

·     Kaufman-APMED.p1002.pdfp1002.#1: more than 10 entries from the modern and colonial Mayan languages with some word resembling or identical to xim, for “spider”.

 

Hue *xiim

CHJ

xim

S

aran*a //

 

QAN

xim

S

aran*a //

 

QAN

xim

 

aran*a

[OKMA]

AKA

xim

 

aran*a

[OKMA]

POP

xim, txim

S

aran*a //

 

MAM

xim

S

aran*a //

 

MAMo

xin

 

aran*a

[OKMA]

MAMi

xin

 

aran*a

[OKMA]

AWA

xiiin

 

aran*a

[OKMA]

IXL

xiim

 

aran*a

[OKMA]

 

 

 

 

 

CHJ

ch’a = xim

 

aran*a

[OKMA]

MAMt

ta+ xim

 

aran*a

[OKMA]

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