Ichan Xocuauh (MH709r)

Ichan Xocuauh (MH709r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Ichan Xocuauh (“Home of Xocuauh”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile view of a white rectangular home (chantli) with what are probably wooden T-shaped beams at the entrance, painted red and black. Xocuauh, which is depicted as a leg with a foot (xo-) and coming up from just above the knee is a gray tree (cuahuitl) trunk with two cut-off branches. Greenery also springs out on both sides of this gray trunk up toward the top. One could isolate the Xocuauh as its own compound glyph.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This folio features nobles who have named homes, which is somewhat unusual. One could isolate the home’s place name as its own compound glyph. The glyph for Cuauhxoxoc suggests new greenery on a tree, which makes more sense than putting the concept of a foot together with a tree. So, perhaps the foot is serving here as a phonetic indicator for Xo-, which might be read as having something to do with the tree leafing out.

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:

phonetic possibilities

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

árboles, pies, piernas, casas, hogares, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli
i- (third person singular possessive pronoun), his, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i
xo-, having to do with the foot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xo
cuahu(itl), tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Su Hogar Se Llama Árbol-Pie

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 709r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=496&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:

"q" for c

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: