Huitznahua (MH871r)

Huitznahua (MH871r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huitznahua is attested here as a man’s name, title, or perhaps occupation (such as mandón or alguacil, in Spanish, as explained in the Codex Mendoza). The glyph shows two upright thorns (huitztli) that are near (-nahuac) each other. They also have some parenthetical objects on either side of them. Perhaps these objects represent the -nahuac (for -nahua) ending to the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

With the exception of the work of the tlacuilo who prepared this page and the next couple, most Huitznahuac, Huitznahuatl, or Huitznahuacatl glyphs do not have these appendages outside of the two thorns. The Codex Mendoza tlacuilo’s rendering of Huitznahuatl (Mdz66r), two decades earlier, uses a phonetic speech scroll for the -nahuatl ending to the person’s name or title.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

joseph . huitznava

Gloss Normalization:

Josef Huitznahua (or José Huitznahua)

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:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

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:

frontal view

spiky

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

espinas, títulos, oficios nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Huitznahuac, a place, a calpolli from Chicomoztoc, an ethnicity, warrior-dancers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitznahuac
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
huitz(tli), a thorn or spine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
-nahuac, next to, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuac
nahua(tl), language, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(un nombre o título)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 871r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=814&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

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: