Itzcuinatl (MH815v)

Itzcuinatl (MH815v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Itzcuinatl (literally, “Dog Water,”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a dog in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Below this head is a whirlpool of water, with a thick and a thin line of current.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Both itzcuintli and atl were day signs of the tonalpohualli, the religious 260-day divinatory calendar, which was a source of many Nahua names. Usually, however, calendrical names were one day name, plus a number from 1 to 13.

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:

calendrics

day name

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

profile view

bird's eye view

facing right

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

perros, agua, remolino, calendarios, nombres de días, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

itzcuin(tli), dog, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itzcuintli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

literalmente, Perro-Agua

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 815v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=705&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:

"u" for o

"y" for i

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: