Mecahuan (MH502r)

Mecahuan (MH502r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mecahuan ("He Who Has Ropes," attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of three, upright, parallel, twisted cords or ropes (mecatl) that curve slightly to the right. The -huan ending to the name is a possessive indicator.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

As found in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary (link provided below), the mecatl could also be a whip, a noose, a unit of measure for land, and a term for a consort. .

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juan
mecahuā

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Mecahuan

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: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Crime, Punishment
Gender (male)
Measurements, Quantities
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Rope, cord
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
tripartite
twisted or entwined
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

ropes, cords, sogas, cuerdas, nooses, lazos

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

meca(tl), rope, cord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mecatl
huan, plural possession, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huan-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Que Posee Cuerdas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 502r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=83&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: 

mecatl (Mdz66r)