Amiztlato (MH718r)

Amiztlato (MH718r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Amiztlato (“Leader among Hunters”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a mountain lion (miztli) with water (atl) spewing from its mouth in a way that suggests he speaks (tlatoa). The animal’s head is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Its coat is textured. The water has a central swirl and then spurts and cascades downward in five short streams, each with a droplet at the end. The mountain lion also has a semantic contribution to the theme of hunting.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Amiztlato is a popular name for men, and it is one of the names that is often fully phonographic, such as this one. See some examples, below. One has just the miztli. Another one stands out as unusual, for it shows a nochtli, which seems to have neither a phonetic or a logographic relevance.

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Gender (male)

Hunting and Fishing

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

facing right

profile view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

upward

multidirectional

Keywords:

cazar, cazadores, líderes, liderazgo, pumas, agua, hablar, nombres de hombres

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 718r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=514&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: