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• * Silent letters may give an insight into the meaning or origin of a word, e.g. vineyard suggests vines more than the phonetic * vinyard would. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• The symbol corresponds to i in the preceding diagram If phonetic, the word indicated should, according to Landa's alphabet, be aspirated, which is found to be true of one of the forms given by Perez In certain series of the Dresden Codex, which appear to relate to the four year series or to the four seasons, especially those on Plates 29-31, a certain class of food animals seems to be assigned to each. —  Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372
• If this interpretation be correct it is phonetic, as there is nothing in or pertaining to the figure of the deity which corresponds with it, except the color If the interpretation given of the preceding symbols Nos. —  Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372
• If the writing is phonetic, the points of resemblance may have some significance, otherwise they do not In a previous paper[208-1] I suggested that the probable signification of the character LXIV, 7, from Dres. —  Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266.
• But the position of the hand in the symbol appears to indicate the act of grasping; either signification gives ch as the chief phonetic element of the Maya word chan and chichan_, signifying "little," and chuc_, chucah_, "to grasp, to seize" ("alcanzar, asir, prender," Perez); or chuuc_, "to take, grasp, catch, seize," Henderson. —  Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266.

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