Home›Open Questions›What does the element sihoom mean in Saksihoom, the Classic name for this month?Open QuestionsWhat does the element sihoom mean in Saksihoom, the Classic name for this month?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What does the element sihoom mean in Saksihoom, the Classic name for this month?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-does-the-element-sihoom-mean-in-saksihoom-the-classic-name-for-this-month.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What does the element sihoom mean in Saksihoom, the Classic name for this month?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-does-the-element-sihoom-mean-in-saksihoom-the-classic-name-for-this-monthCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-does-the-element-sihoom-mean-in-sak, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What does the element sihoom mean in Saksihoom, the Classic name for this month?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-does-the-element-sihoom-mean-in-saksihoom-the-classic-name-for-this-month}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesEssays About This Entity (1 essay)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionIn the Classic inscriptions this month is written as a colour term joined to a second element read as sihoom. The colour term is secure. The second element is left untranslated, so the literal sense of the month name cannot be recovered from the inscriptions, and the storm gloss that circulates for it comes from the post-conquest Yucatec name instead.What would resolve this A collation of every spelling of the sign group across the Classic corpus, with its substitution sets and phonetic complements, set against the Colonial-period Yucatec and Cholan dictionaries, to test whether sihoom has a surviving lexical match.OpenMaya epigraphy, with Mayan historical linguistics.Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston, The Maya (9th edition)Cross-Tradition ConnectionsDiscipline NeededMaya Epigraphy, Scholarly Disciplines Well-attested Source The Maya (9th edition)Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houstontier 1Mayan Historical Linguistics, Scholarly Disciplines Well-attested Source The Maya (9th edition)Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houstontier 1Question OnSak, Haab Months Well-attested Source The Maya (9th edition)Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houstontier 1SourcesThe Maya (9th edition)tier 1Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston, Thames and Hudson, 2015View the SourceEssays About This Entity (1 essay)One Untranslated Syllable, Asked Four Times, Filed Under Two DisciplinesThe open question itself, confirmed publicComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year