Chiancoyotl (MH884r)

Chiancoyotl (MH884r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chiancoyotl (literally, “Chia-Coyote”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a coyote (coyotl) in profile, facing the viewer’s right. Two sprigs or blossoms of a chia (chiyantli) plant come out of the top of this head.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Many chian glyphs involve black dots, but this one seems to focus on the flowers. The relationship between the coyote and chia seeds remains to be elucidated further.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

p. chiācoyotl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Pedro Chiancoyotl

Gloss/Text 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:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Misc.

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

chia, chiyan, chiyantli, chien, coyotes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chiyan(tli), a food plant whose seeds produce oil, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiyantli
coyo(tl), a coyote, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

literalmente, Chia-Coyote

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 884r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=840&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).

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