Huitzilatl (MH525r)

Huitzilatl (MH525r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Huitzilatl (“Hummingbird-Water,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a plant, perhaps a spiny plant (for huitztli, thorn?). Coming from the bottom of the plant are six little sprays of water, each one with a droplet at the tip.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juan huitzilatl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Huitzilatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Politics, Power, Governance

Religion (Indigenous)

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

leaf, marquise, pointed oval

frontal view

spiky

spiny

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

agua, plantas, planta espinosa, planta puntiaguda

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Huitzillatzin, an atonomous-era ruler of Huitzilopochco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzillatzin
huitzil(in), hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilin
huitz(tli), thorns, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Colibrí-Agua, o el nombre de una persona famosa, Huitzilatzin

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 525r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=129&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: