Huehue (MH496r)

Huehue (MH496r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huehue (elder) is a modification of the portrait of the bearer of the name (here, a man) by adding age lines to his face.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

It may be that "huehue" is a reference to the man's age, rather than his name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Sanctos
huehue

Gloss Normalization: 

Santos Huehue

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: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Aging (People, Animals, Things)
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

aging, envejeciendo, arrugas, arrudago, nombres de hombres

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

huehue, an elder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehue-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Viejo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 496r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=71&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: 
intrusive "c"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Huehue (MH750r)

huehue (Mdz71r)

huehue (Mdz42r)

huehue (CQ)

Huehue (MH608r)

Xolotl (Mdz13v)