Calyahualco (Mdz22r)

Calyahualco (Mdz22r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Cayahualco consists of a profile-view of a house or building (calli) with a circle around it (yahualli). These are black-line drawings. The house or building is white with the exception of the timbers, which have a t-shape and a terracotta color.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The -yahualco ending on a place name may provide a locative suffix meaning "encircling." In this case, the result may be "Encircling the House" or "Around the House." Starr thought the translation should be a place surrounded by houses. See also Tlachyahualco (below, right), which might mean "Encircling the Ball Court."

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

calyahualco.pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Calyahualco, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (places)

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

houses, buildings, architecture, casas, edificios, arquitectura, circular, círculos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
yahual(li), something round, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yahualli
yahual(tic), something round, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yahualtic
-yahualco, encircling, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yahualco
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Karttunen’s Interpretation:

"In the Circle of Houses" (apparently agreeing with Berdan and Anawalt) [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

"In the Circle of Houses" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. 176); "Place Surrounded by Houses" (Frederick Starr, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_60723...)

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

"Dentro del Círculo de Casas" (traducción por SW de la traducción al inglés de Berdan y Anawalt); o "Lugar Circunvalado de Casas" (http://oldweb.geog.berkeley.edu/ProjectsResources/Glyphs/Plate06/Calyahu...)

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 22 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 54 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).