Chiucnauh (MH631v)

Chiucnauh (MH631v)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name/notation Chiucnauh ("Nine") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph consists of two groups of vertical lines connected by horizontal lines along the bottom. The group on the left, which leans slightly that way, consists of four lines. The group on the right consists of five lines. It is like a math equation, 4 + 5 = 9.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

A day name from the tonalpohualli--religious divinatory calendar of 260 days--would have once accompanied this number. Either tlacuilos (or perhaps the parents) were forgetting how the calendar worked, or they were apocopating a long name, or perhaps they were purposely disguising that this name came from the calendar that could be a worry for the local friars.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pe^o
chiuhcnauh

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Chiucnauh

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

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

diagonal or angled

horizontal

linear or multiple straight lines

frontal view

spiky

vertical, upright

Keywords:

nine, nueve, numbers, números, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chiucnahui, nine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiucnahui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Nueve

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 631r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=345st=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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: