[Aztlan] Glyph for Love

[David Hixson]

I don't know if this ever shows up in the glyphs, but the Yucatec Maya word for love is "Yaakunah" which has as its root "yah".  This is an interesting Maya dualism, as this term is also the root for "pain".  For instance, Yaahkunt(ik) is the verb meaning to "cause pain; love".

In the more basic phrase books, like those by John Montgomery or Gary Bevington, love is simply glossed as "yaahkuntik" (transitive verb).

The more scholarly work of Victoria Bricker (Dictionary of the Maya Language as spoken in Hocaba, Yucatan) breaks down the various uses of the root word under the entries "Yah" and "Yaak".

Note, all of the doubled vowels in the terms above are low tones.

-Dave