[This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.]
CMGG entry for yah1

Alternative readings: YA / YA'
Translation: wound
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of yah1

                                                                                               

TOK.p36.r3.c2                           BMM9.p14.r3.c3                    25EMC.pdfp52.#1                MHD.PE1.1&2                                   1078va   1078vc      1078vs

?                                                  A…?                                           YAH                                         YA’                                                       YA’

 

                                                                                                                   

Grube-ALfYW.p1.fig1.1          Grube-ALfYW.p4.fig5                    Grube-ALfYW.p4.fig6                    Grube-ALfYW.p5.fig7                            Grube-ALfYW.p8.fig10.a

= Grube-WwH.p170.fig3.f

                                                    DPL HS1 Step III D3                       DPL HS2 Step V                              Bolonkin area ballgame yoke               K2213

YAH / YA’                                   <u:CHAM>.<YAH:hi?>                  <u:CHAM>.<YAH:hi?>                   u.<<YAH[TUUN].ni>:a>                         YAH

 

                                                                                                                        

Grube-ALfYW.p1.fig1.2            Grube-ALfYW.p1.fig1.3                Grube-ALfYW.p2.fig2.1                  Grube-ALfYW.p2.fig2.2               Grube-ALfYW.p2.fig2.3         

                                                                                                               YAX Lintel 37 A4                              CPN Stela J back                           PNG Burial 13 incised shell

YAH                                              YAH                                                  YAH                                                    YAH                                                 <?:T’AB[yi]?>.<YAH:TE’?>

 

                                                                                                                        

Grube-ALfYW.p3.fig4               Grube-ALfYW.p8.fig10.c             Grube-ALfYW.p8.fig10.d                                                           Grube-ALfYW.p8.fig11.a

Pearlman 58                              TIK Stela 10 G8                             BPK Structure 1 Room 1 North Wall caption I-36                 IXZ Panel 2 Block 4 S1-T1

<ya:YAH>.<ka:ba>                     ya.<YAH:la>                                  a{j}.YAH                                                                                        <YAH+BAHLAM>:ma

 

·    No glyphs given in K&H, K&L. The glyph given in BMM9.p14.r3.c3 (complete pronunciation not given) is not explicitly linked to the other examples here, but the similarity seems to justify it.

·    25EMC.pdfp52.#1 glosses this as “opening, wound”.

·    Almost all the examples are from Grube-ALfYW, which proposes a reading of YAH/YA, and meaning “to wound”, “injure”.

·    Features:

o Anthropomorphic head with a “stepped V” under the eye.

o Optional obsidian blade, acting as a kind of “signific” (it can be above or to the left, or even as a “forehead ornament” (YAX Lintel 37 A4)), to indicate the instrument with which the wound or injury is caused.

·    Reading(s):

o Beliaev&Houston-ASSiMW (2020) gives YAH or YA.

o Grube-ALfYW (2020) proposes YAH or YA.

o Grube-WwH.p169.pdfp169.para2.l-2 and Grube-WwH.p170.pdfp170.fig3.f (2021) gives YA’.

o MHD and Bonn (dynamic and current) both give (only) YA’.

While it looks like there’s more support for YA’ than YAH (in the course of time), I prefer to continue to list the primary reading as YAH (i.e., as YAH1), while also giving YA’ as an alternative, in order to emphasize the possible connection to YAH2.