Ami (MH661r)

Ami (MH661r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ami (“Hunt”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a bird’s eye view of swirling water and an arrow at an angle piercing the water. The gloss does not show the Nahua name, only his baptismal first name. But we know from the other example right below this one on the tribute list that this is the glyph for Ami. It is spelled out phonetically with the glyph for water (“a”) and the glyph for arrow (“mi”). The arrow also serves a semantic function, pointing to the verb "to hunt" (ami).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

martin.

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín

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: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Hunting and Fishing
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Water
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
diagonal or angled
segmented
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

flechas, agua, verbos, cazar, nombres de hombres

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

ami, to hunt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ami
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
mi(tl), arrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cazar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 661r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=402&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: 

tochmotla (TR26r) (eg1)

tochmotla (TR26r) (eg2)

Ami (MH661r)

Ami (MH833v)