Acolhua (MH595r)

Acolhua (MH595r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Acolhua (“Person from Acolhuacan,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of a human arm bent at the elbow into an L-shape. At the top, at the site of the shoulder (acolli), water (atl) emerges. The -hua is either not shown visually or it is represented by the hand, given that a "grasping hand" can be interpreted as the hua syllabic phonogram. The water consists of three triangular streams, each one with a line of current (movement) down the middle and a droplet at the lower tip.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The atl in this compound plays a phonetic reinforcing role; it is there to ensure the reading begins with A-.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
personal name
Syntax: 
hua (grasping hand)
visible movement
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
facing right
L-shapes
frontal view
right angle(s)
triangular
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

water, agua, shoulder, hombro, etnicidades, Acolhuacan, Tetzcoco

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

Acolhua, an ethnicity, a person from Acolhuacan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Acolhua
acol(li), shoulder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acolli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Acolhua

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 595r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=269&st=image.

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Acol (MH554r)

Acol (MH565v)

acolli (Mdz21v)

Acolhuacan (Mdz5v)