[This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.]
CMGG entry for pop

Alternative readings: POHP
Translation: mat
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of pop: None known.

Syllabogram spellings of pop

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AT-E1168-lecture6.t0:07:30(.15)               L&D.p87.pdfp87.text2 (Mathews)

                                                                         K8885 glyph-block #6

po:po                                                               <2po:lo>.<tz’i:i>

 

·    AT-E1168-lecture6.t0:07:30 gives the pronunciation as pohp, which is at variance with the Lacadena-Wichmann rules, as po-po is synharmonic and would suggest a short -o- pop. The transcription with aspirated o is however very common. This is perhaps from linguistic reconstruction, based on the modern Mayan languages.

·    EB1.p151.pdfp156.#4: pop “mat” (but EB1 never gives long, aspirated, or glottalized vowels anyway).

·    K8885 glyph-block #6 – <2po:lo>.<tz’i:i> è Pohpol Tz’i’ = “Matty Dog”:

o The lo writes the adjective-deriving suffix -Vl, where V is a vowel which matches the vowel of the root.

o The i writes the glottal stop at the end of the word tz’i’ = “dog”.

o The word pohp = “mat”, so this is pohpol = “matty”, “mat-like”.

o Pohpol Tz’i’ was, apparently, the name of a Baah Che’b = a “Chief Scribe” in the court of some Classic Maya ruler.