Calihuitl (MH663r)

Calihuitl (MH663r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Calihuitl (“House-Feathers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a white house in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. It has the typical T-shaped entryway of what are likely wooden beams. Connected to this house by a tethering line are two feathers.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

It is unclear whether this name has another meaning than the literal one.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

line connecting elements

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

T-shapes

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

arquitectura, plumas, nombres de hombres, feathers

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cal(li), house, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
ihui(tl), feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Casa-Plumas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 663r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=406&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: