Icnonemitl (MH638r)

Icnonemitl (MH638r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Icnonemitl ("One Who Lives Humbly") consists of two elements. One is a profile view of a man's head looking toward the viewer's right. Three tears stream down his face, indicative that he is humble or sad (icno-). Below this are shown two footprints in a bird's eye view. They are heading to the right. 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:

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:

ycnonemitl

Gloss Normalization:

Icnonemitl

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)

verb

visible movement

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Children, Childhood, Adolescence

Emotions

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:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

orphans, huérfanos, humble, humilde, vive, vivir, ir, andar, triste, sad, tears, lágrimas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Anda Humildemente

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 638r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=358st=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: