Chayahual (MH831r)

Chayahual (MH831r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chayahual (perhaps “Gate”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a rectangular gate with four upright posts and a horizontal piece at the top and the bottom. Dots (seeds?) appear on the ground in front of the gate, providing a phonetic complement in the form of the homophonic verb chayahua, to sprinkle seeds on the ground.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This looks like a wooden gate, which is usually cuauhchayahualli, so it is unclear why the cuauh- is omitted in the gloss. See below for other examples of such gates. One is more like a railing–carved and painting–that was used indoors. The -yahual part of this term would seem to suggest that it goes around something, like a fence. But nothing in the visual evidence suggests this as of yet.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tolibio chayaval

Gloss Normalization:

Toribio Chayahual

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:

homophony, rebus

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

multidirectional

Keywords:

puertas, entradas, madera, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauhchayahual(li), wooden gate, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhchayahualli
chayahua, to scatter, sprinkle or disperse wheat seeds or the like, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chayahua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Puerta

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 831r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=736&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:

"l" for r

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: