Malinal (MH895v)

Malinal (MH895v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Malinal (“Twisted Grass”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a group of tall grass with blossoms at the tips of four and a thick cord or rope twisted around their stems.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a calendrical name. Normally, this day sign would have had a numerical (1–13) companion that also came from the calendar. But the number, as was often the case by this time (1560) had dropped away, and only the day sign (malinalli) appears.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juo. malinal

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Malinal

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: 
calendrics
day name
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Rope, cord, string, leather ties
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
twisted or entwined
Keywords: 

hierbas entrelazadas, plantas, nombres de hombres

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

malinal(li), tall grass, twisted grass, and a day sign, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Hierba Retorcida

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 895v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=863&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: 
See Also: 

Malinal (MH595r)

malinalli (T1735:2:109)

malinalli (Mdz16r)

malinalli (Mxnus26)