Champa (Verg9r)

Champa (Verg9r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Champa (“Toward Home,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a home (chantli) in profile, facing toward the viewer's left. Sticking out of the T-shaped doorway is a two-pointed banner (panitl) on a pole. The pole has a cap. The banner, which shows some European stylistic influence, is a phonetic indicator for the preposition -pa (toward).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The visual representations of house and home are quite similar. It is only the glosses that inform us of the distinction. In this case, the final "n" of the root for chantli has been dropped inadvertently, and in restoring it, since it comes before "p," we have to make it "cham-". The gloss also inadvertently added an "n" at the end of the name, which we are omitting. Intrusive "n's" and the omission of "n" is very common in Nahuatl orthography.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego.chapā

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Champa

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Vergara, Codex (Verg)
Date of Manuscript: 

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

near Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
pa/pan/pal syllable from panitl
preposition
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Land Parcels, Use, Issues
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
rectangular
right angle(s)
T-shapes
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

hogar, casa, hacia, nombres de hombres

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

chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli
pan(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-pa, toward, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pa-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Hacia el Hogar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Vergara, folio 9r, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f25.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Orthography: 
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

chantli (Mdz49r)

chantli (CmpRG)

Tlalticpaque (Verg12v)

Totequipan (Verg21v)