Ecaix (MH770v)

Ecaix (MH770v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the personal name Ecaix (perhaps "Air-Eye," although seemingly pointing to "Wind-Eye," attested as a man's name) shows an eye (of the stellar or starry eye type) with a horizontal curling shape above it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po hecāys

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Ecaix

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: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Celestial Phenomena
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
half circle
horizontal
frontal view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

aires, aliento, viento, ojos, nombres de hombres

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

eca(tl), air, breath, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl
eheca(tl), wind, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehecatl
ix(tli), eye, face, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Aire-Ojo, Aliento-Ojo, o Viento-Ojo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 770v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=615&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: 
"s" for x
"y" for i
intrusive "h" or "hu"
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Ecaix (MH520r)

Ecaix (MH504r)

Ecaix (MH833r)