Namol (MH830v)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Namol (perhaps “Ordinary,” “Whoever,” or “My Soap”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view or frontal view of a right hand that is open and partly covering something. The semantic (or even phonetic) role of the hand is unclear. The item it partially covers is vaguely reminiscent of a group of short water sprays, and perhaps someone is washing their hands, suggesting no- + -amol- = “my soap.” This formula could be a phonetic indicator, however, for the expression namol, which refers to an ordinary person.