Chantli (MH705v)

Chantli (MH705v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chantli (“Home”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a building that looks identical to a calli, with its T-shaped beam entryway (here, painted red, but black in the lower third of the upright beam), in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

As Frances Karttunen points out, chantli is to calli as “home” is to “house” in English. While chantli can be found with its absolutive (-tli), chan- will often be possessed or found in compounds.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juā chatli

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Chantli

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
T-shapes
Keywords: 

casas, hogares, nombres de hombres

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

chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Hogar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 705v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=489&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: 
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Chantli (MH833r)

chantli (MH484v)

chantli (CholRG)

Aoc Ichan (MH629v)

Icihuachan (MH735v)

Techan (MH651r)