de Olmos (MH729r

de Olmos (MH729r
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name de Olmos (a loan from Spanish) is attested here as pertaining to a Nahua man. It shows a stone (tetl) with its alternating dark and light diagonal stripes and curling ends. The stone provides the phonetic indicator for the start to the name “de.” Above the stone is a circle with a dark center, which might be a rubber ball (olli), another phonetic indicator for the start to the surname Ol-. 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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

striped

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

piedras, hule, nombres de hombres, nombres prestados, influencia europea

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
ol(li), rubber or rubber ball, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/olli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

de Olmos

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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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