Izquitecatl (MH688r)

Izquitecatl (MH688r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Izquitecatl (person from Izquitlan) is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows a horizontal bar at the top, perhaps a blade for cutting (for the verb tequi, to cut), and below that, a rain of popcorn (izquitl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a fairly rare compound name where the ethnicity is spelled out completely phonetically.

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: 
numbers
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

etnicidades, barrios, palomitas, cortar, nombres de lugares, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

izqui(tl), popcorn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/izquitl
izqui, however many, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/izqui
tequi, to cut, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequi
-tecatl, person from (a town ending in -tlan), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

persona de Izquitlan

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 688r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=456&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: 
"y" for i
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Izquitlan (MH496v)