Acolhua (MH745v)

Acolhua (MH745v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Acolhua (someone from Acolhuacan), shows a body of water (atl) with three descending streams, each one with a line of current and a droplet at its lower tip. Connecting to this water is a bending arm, which represents acolli (shoulder) providing the phonetic value for the ethnicity.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

agua, hombre, etnicidades, pueblos, afiliación, nombres de hombres

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

Acolhua, a person from Acolhuacan, an inhabitant of the Tetzcoco region, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acolhua
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
acol(li), shoulder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(una persona de Acolhuacan)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 745v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=569&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).

Orthography: 
"g" for c, q, or x
"l" for r
"u" for o
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Acolhua (MH595r)

Acolhuacan (MH501v)

Acol (MH565v)