Hualacic (MH503r)

Hualacic (MH503r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Hualacic ("Newly Arrived," attested here as a man's name) shows a profile view of a tall, thin person (likely a man) walking toward the viewer's right. This man has a long, upright stick in his left hand, and the stick has a triangular blade attached to it. The implication may be that he has just arrived (hualacic) to work in the fields.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The way the man is reaching out with his hand to the stick may be an added semantic indicator for the verb aci, which not only means to arrive but also to reach out with the hand. The name "Recently Arrived" makes sense for a baby, especially if the parents named the baby shortly after it was born.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

françisco
hualaçic

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Hualacic

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
verb
preterit tense
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

arrive, llegar, recently, recién llegado

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

hualacic, came to arrive; newly arrived, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hualacic
hual-, in this direction, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hual
aci, to arrive, or to reach with the hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/aci

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Recién Llegado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 503r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=83&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: 

Hualacic (MH499r)