Amiztlato (MH486r)

Amiztlato (MH486r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a compound glyph for a man's personal name Amiztlato (Amiztlahto, with the glottal stop), referring to "Leader among Hunters." The compound contains two notable elements. One is the head of a mountain lion (miztli) shown in profile looking to the viewer's left. The animal's coat is somewhat striped. Coming out of its mouth is a spray of water (atl), providing the start ("A-") to the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The water could double as speech scrolls, as though the animal speaks (tlatoa) (or tlahtoa with the glottal stop) with water. The contextualizing image shows that this is a man--based on his hairstyle and on his name, Juan, which additionally shows that he has been baptized.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juā amiztlato

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Amiztlato (or Juan Amiztlahto)

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Hunting and Fishing

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Number of Parts, Other / Comment:

If the dual purpose of the water were to count as two parts, then this might be a "3."

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

upward

Reading Order, Notes:

Starting from the water the reading goes upward to the mountain lion, but then back down if we count the water as doubling as the verb tlatoa (or tlahtoa, with the glottal stop).

Keywords:

pumas, lions, animales, agua

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Amiztlato, a leader among hunters, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amiztlato
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
miz(tli), wildcat, mountain lion, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miztli
tlatoa or tlahtoa with the glottal stop, to speak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Líder entre Cazadores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=51&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: