Matemoloc (MH501v)

Matemoloc (MH501v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Matemoloc (“He Was Reached in the Dark,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a right hand in a frontal view. It is reaching--apparently in the dark--(matemoa) toward the right, but the name also has a passive "lo," and the preterit -c, suggesting the person with this name "was reached."

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro
matemoloc

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Matemoloc

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: 
verb
passive tense
preterit tense
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
Keywords: 

reach out to, llegar a, verb, verbo, pretérito

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

ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
matemoa, to reach in the dark, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matemoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Lo Alcanzó en la Oscuridad (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 501v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=82&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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