Miztli Yauh (MH632v)

Miztli Yauh (MH632v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Miztli Yauh (perhaps "The Mountain Lion Goes," attested here as a woman's name) shows the head of a mountain lion (miztli) in profile looking toward the viewer's right. Below him is a stream of water (atl), which can provide the phonetic "a" of yauh (to go). The stream of water has a line of current (movement), but it also has three lines on the left end, further suggesting movement, which could additionally feed into the verb yauh.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juana
miztliyauh

Gloss Normalization:

Juana Miztli Yauh

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 dimensions

Syntax:

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (female)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement

diagonal or angled

dotted, granular, textured

profile view

facing right

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Keywords:

widows, viudas, nombres de mujeres, wild cats, pumas, cougars, rivers, ríos, verbos, ir, miztliyauh

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

miz(tli), a mountain lion, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miztli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
yauh, to go, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yauh

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Puma Va, o El Río del Puma

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=347st=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: