Calmecahua (MH650v)

Calmecahua (MH650v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This red and white drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or title, Calmecahua, is attested here as pertaining to a man. Calmecahua was either a title that went with tecuhtli/teuctli (lord) in a place called Calmecahuacan or the name of a man who wrote a history of Tlaxcala in 1548. Probably the town was a place with a a school, calmecac. The glyph shows a frontal view of a calli (house or building) with red beams framing the entry way. A loose, coiled rope or cord sits on the roof. The glyph seems to be spelled at least partly phonetically, with a calli (house, building) and a mecatl (cord or rope) above it.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

diego calmecava

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Calmecahua

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Education, Knowledge, Wisdom

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Rope, cord

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

sogas, casas, edificios, escuelas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Calmecahua, a title or the name of a historian of Tlaxcala, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calmecahua
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
calmecac, school, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calmecac
meca(tl), cord or rope, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mecatl
-hua, (singular possessive suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(un título o el nombre de un historiador)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 650v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=383&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: