Calmecahua (MH721r)

Calmecahua (MH721r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line 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) at Calmecahuacan or the name of a man who wrote a history of Tlaxcala in 1548. The town, Calmecahuacan, probably had a school. The glyph shows a frontal view of a standard house (calli) that has a twisted cord (mecatl) coming out from the entrance. The -hua (possessive singular) is not shown visually. The calli element is a logogram, but the mecatl is phonetic.

Description, 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:

noun(s)

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

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

cordones, sogas, casas, edificios, escuelas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
meca(tl), a cord or rope, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mecatl
calmecac, school for youth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calmecac
-hua (singular possessive suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(un título o el nombre de un historiador famoso)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 721r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=520&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:

"u" for hu

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: