Ayauhcuauh (MH779v)

Ayauhcuauh (MH779v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ayauhcuauh (“Tall Pine Tree”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a tree with a leader and four additional branches. The replication of short lines that comprise the branches might be pine needles.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The ocotl is a type of pine that is much more common in this digital collection. Given the high concentration of sap, the branches of the ocotl (ocote in Mexican Spanish today) are prized for making torches. Glyphs involving an ocotl element typically include pine cones. This ayauhcuauh does not show pine cones.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

adres ayauhquauh

Gloss Normalization:

Andrés Ayauhcuauh

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

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

symmetry

Keywords:

árboles altos, pinos, madera, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ayauhcuahui(tl), a tall pine prized for construction, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayauhcuahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Pino Alto

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 779v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=633&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).

Orthography:

"q" for c

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: