Anahuacatl (MH526v)

Anahuacatl (MH526v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Anahuacatl (“Person From Near the Water,” which can refer to the central Mexican lakes or the coastal areas, attested here as a man’s name) shows a curving stream of water, with smaller streams splashing off and droplets at the ends of these splashes. Black lines in the water also suggest current, movement.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This simplex glyph of water refers to being near the water (-nahuac-), which could be said of the capital city, Mexico Tenochtitlan, surrounded by lakes. So, someone from Anahuac was a Mexica, a Tenochca, or someone from another lakeshore community.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā.anahuacatl.

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Anahuacatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

preposition

visible movement

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

curving, curvy, curved

Keywords:

agua, junto, cerca, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, lagos, lakes, lakeside, Anahuac, etnicidades

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
-nahuac, near, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuac
-catl, person of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
anahuac, next to the water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/anahuac

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

[Él es] de Anahuac (Cerca de los Lagos o la Costa)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 526v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=132&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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