Icnonemitl (MH503v)

Icnonemitl (MH503v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Icnonemitl (perhaps "One Who Lives Humbly," consists of two elements. One is a frontal view of a tiny face in the form of a circle with three dots for eyes and nose or mouth. The face could represent an orphan (icnotl) or other vulnerable person, covering the prefix icno- (sad or humble). Below this are shown two footprints in a bird's eye view. They are heading downwards. They seem to suggest the verb nemi, to live or to go about, covering the second half of the name, -nemitl. Nemini is a resident; might nemitl have a similar meaning, such as one who lives or goes about?

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The ending -nemi can also refer to someone who "lives like" the preceding noun, so in this case, someone who lives like an orphan or someone humble.

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.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

diego
ycnonemitl

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Icnonemitl

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Children, Childhood, Adolescence

Family, Kinship, even Friendship

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

facing downward

frontal view

bird's eye view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

orphans, huérfanos, humble, humilde, vive, vivir, ir

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

icno-, humble, in a sad state, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icno
icno(tl), orphan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icnotl
nemi, to live; or, to walk, go about, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemi
-nemi, to live like one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemi-0
nemini, a resident, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemini

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Que Vive Como Huérfano (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 503v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=86&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: