Amiztlato (MH747r)

Amiztlato (MH747r)
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 profile view of the head of a mountain lion (miztli, and puma in Spanish) looking toward the viewer’s right. Water spews from its mouth much like words might, referring to the verb tlatoa (to speak).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Number of Parts, Other / Comment: 

One could count the water as both atl and tlatoa (or tlahtoa). If so, then there would be three parts.

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

cazadores, líderes, liderazgo, pumas, 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-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Líder entre Cazadores

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 747r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=572&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).

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