Ocuil (MH773v)

The -cuil- of ocuilin seems to lend itself to standing for the phonetic syllable “cuil” found in many other words, as demonstrated below. The association with writing, in particular, is intriguing. It may suggest that writing is equated with curling, squiggly lines. The gloss for this glyph seems to include an error at the end that was crossed out. Sometimes white paint covered such errors, and in one case, a couple of letters were cut out from the page.