Imac Tlacuiya (MH602r)

Imac Tlacuiya (MH602r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Imac Tlacuiya (“He Wraps His Hand,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a right hand (maitl). There appears to be a cloth wrapping around the wrist of the hand. This wrapping appears to point to the verb tecuiya, to wrap, or tlacuiya, wind around.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juan ymac tlacuiya

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Imac Tlacuiya

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

Syntax:

phrase or sentence

possessive pronoun

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

tied, bound, or bundled

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

hands, manos, tied, atados, envueltos, frases, phrases, imactlacuiya

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
i-, possessive pronoun, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i
tecuiya, to wrap, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuiya
tlacuiya, to wind, to reel in, to wrap around, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuiya

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Su Mano Está Atada (o Envuelta)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 602r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=283&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).

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