Hualancanemi (MH756r)

Hualancanemi (MH756r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Hualancanemi (perhaps, “He Lived to Come and Take”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a human (possibly a young male) head in profile, facing toward the right and downward.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

With two verbs connected by “ca,” as here, the first verb is the verbal preterite agentive, and it modifies the verb on the right, which is the main verb. See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary for more information regarding “-ca-.”

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: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Emotions
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing downward
profile view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

hualana, to come to take, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hualana
-ca-, connector for two verbs, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ca-1
nemi, to live, to go about doing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemi

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Vivió Para Venir y Tomar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 756r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=590&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: 
"g" for h
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cocoton (MH770r)

pipiltotontin (MH485r)