de Olmos (MH729r)

de Olmos (MH729r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the Spanish surname, Olmos (held here by a Nahua man), shows a horizontal, striped stone with curling ends. The diagonal stripes alternate from dark to light, and one end of the stone is white while the other is black. This stone (te-) provides the phonetic start to the name, “de.” The circle above the stone has a black, round center, probably meant to be rubber (olli) and serve as a phonetic indicator for the “Ol-” start to the name. Eight small white circles surround the black ball, fairly evenly spaced, inside the circle. They create something of a border that is reminiscent of a marketplace (tianquiztli). How they play into the name is unclear.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

By 1560, the time of this manuscript, a number of Nahua men in Huejotzingo were using the surnames of friars and other Spanish settlers. Fray Andrés de Olmos was probably known among the Nahuas for his evangelical work but also his project in developing a grammar of Nahuatl, the Arte de la lengua mexicana (1547). Many Nahuas were also taking the name Toribio, probably after Fray Toribio de Benavente Motolinia. Even on this folio, there are two men named “Tholipiyo” (a Nahuatlization of Toribio).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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 phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Christian)

Religion (Indigenous Christianity)

Rubber

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

diagonal or angled

horizontal

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

striped

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

piedras, hule, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres, frailes, náhuatl

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Olmos, a Spanish surname, and name of a Franciscan friar who worked with Nahuatl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/olmos

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 729r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=536&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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