Acolhuacan (MH650v)

Acolhuacan (MH650v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Acolhuacan shows a human arm. The idea is to emphasize the shoulder, not the elbow or the hand, because acolli can mean shoulder. It can also refer to a bend in a river, a landscape feature. But in this case, the acolli serves as a phonetic indicator for the place of the Acolhua.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Acolhuaca barrio

Gloss Normalization:

Acolhuacan barrio

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as phonogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

tan

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

pueblos, nombres de lugares, topónimos, curvos, hombros, ríos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

acol(li), shoulder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acolli
coltic, curved, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coltic
-hua- (possession or containment), https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
-can (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Lugar de los Acolhua

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 650v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=383&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: