Mazaihuitl (MH712r)

Mazaihuitl (MH712r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name, Mazaihuitl (perhaps “Deer-Feather”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a hand (maitl) pointing an index finger toward the viewer’s right. The hand plays a phonetic role, letting the reader know that the name starts with Ma-. One yellow feather (ihuitl) appears above this hand, and another yellow feather appears below. The calamus of each feather touches the wrist. There are no visuals for the deer, which is a component to the name as becomes evident in the gloss.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

A mention of a Diego Mazaihuitl occurs in a sixteenth-century testament from Culhuacan. So, this is not an isolated name from Huexotzinco. See: Testamentos de mujeres indígenas culhuacanas: siglo XVI / codirección y edición, Clara Ramírez, Claudia Llanos ; selección, transcripción y traducción, Sofía Torres Jiménez, p. 113

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, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

plumas, manos, venado, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

maza(tl), deer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mazatl
hui(tl), feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Venado-Pluma

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 712r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=502&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:

"ç" for z or tz

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: