Cacha (MH904v)

Cacha (MH904v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cacha (or Acacha, “Locust”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a large, vertical locust (acachatl), with its head upward. To the left of the insect’s head is a small building in profile, apparently a home (chantli). This latter element provides a phonetic indicator for the -cha of acachatl. If the name is really Cacha and not Acacha, perhaps both visual elements are phonetic indicators, and the compound is fully phonographic.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Acachatl can also mean grasshopper, but chapulin is much more common for grasshopper. The gloss here had the first name as Pedro and then changed it to Martín (both abbreviated), scribbling out Pedro.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

mīn hernādez cachā

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín Hernández Cacha (o Acacha)

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
phonetic dimensions
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
cha or chan syllable (from chantli)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Insects & Bugs
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing upward
profile view
rectangular
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

chapulines, langostas, casas, arquitectura, nombres de hombres

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

acacha(tl), locust or grasshopper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acachatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Langosta

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 904v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=881&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: 
errors and revisions
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Chapol (MH753r)