Chilihuitl (MH836r)

Chilihuitl (MH836r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chilihuitl (perhaps “Red Feathers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a cross between a plant with two chile peppers (chilli) and a plant with two feathers (ihuitl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

As Frances Karttunen points out in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary entry for chilli, “in compounds CHĪL- often conveys the sense ‘red.’” Since this hieroglyph was not painted red, the feathers were made to look like chile peppers to convey the sense of the color.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pe^o chiliguitl

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Chilihuitl

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:

Color names

Feathers

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Keywords:

plumas, rojas, nombres de colores, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chil(li), chile pepper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chilli
ihui(tl), feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Plumas Rojas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 836r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=746&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:

"g" for h

Historical Contextualizing Image: