Ayaxcan (MH628v)

Ayaxcan (MH628v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ayaxcan ("With Difficulty" or "Slowly") is attested here as a man's name. The A- start to this name comes from a swirling stream of water (atl) with four offshoots, each one with a droplet at the end. Above the water appears to be some kind of cup or bowl (perhaps a caxitl or a xicalli) with short, horizontal, protruding lines on either side of it. This remains to be analyzed, but it must represent the -yaxcan (with difficulty) part of the name, probably phonetically. One possibility is -axca (property, goods, the things one owns), which is a near homophone to -yaxcan.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

Diego
ayaxcā

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

DIego Ayaxcan

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
homophony, rebus
personal name
phonetic dimensions
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
adverb
syllable: a/atl (from atl)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
frontal view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

dificultades, difícil, agua, vasija, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ayaxcan, with difficulty, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayaxcan
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
-can, place of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Con Dificultad

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 628v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=339st=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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