Chiyauh (MH521r)

Chiyauh (MH521r)

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chiyauh (perhaps "Chia Seeds" or "Chia Container," attested here as a man's name), consists of a container, with handles, overflowing with a dotted substance (chiyantli), or chia seeds, a food item. The container is flared at the top. The handles are fairly simply drawn, one on each side, symmetrically.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juao chiyauh

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Chiyauh

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood, José Aguayo-Barragan

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
symmetry
dotted, granular, textured
frontal view
Keywords: 

seeds, semillas, aceite, oils, nombres de hombres

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

chiyan(tli), chia seeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiyantli
-uh, possessive suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/uh

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

semillas de chia

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=121&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

chiyan (Mdz13r)

chiyan (Mdz16r)

chiyan (Mdz36r)