Hualilo (MH789v)

Hualilo (MH789v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Hualilo ("Came Back") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph involves four footprints two going toward the right and two coming back (for the verb hualiloti, to return).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tetepotztoca, totoco, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po vallilo

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Hualilo

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: 
directional (e.g., hual)
verb
visible movement
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres, verbo, volver, huellas

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

hualiloti, to return, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hualiloti
huallauh, to come this way, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huallauh

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 789v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=653&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: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: