Manex (MH492v)

Manex (MH492v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Manex (“To Point Out,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a hand (maitl) rising from some kind of structure (a display stand?) yet to be identified. The maitl can have a semantic role as part of the verb (manextia), "to point out," "indicate," or "show," but it may also be a phonetic complement, depending upon the meaning of the structure below it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

rodrigo manes

Gloss Normalization: 

Rodrigo Manex

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
phonetic possibilities
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
rectangular
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

manos, mostrar

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

manextia, show, indicate, point out, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/manextia-1
ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
neci, appear, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/neci

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Mostrar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 492v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=64&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: 

maitl (Mdz12r)