Mocauhqui (MH836r)

Mocauhqui (MH836r)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mocauhqui (either ”Married Man” or "Left/Abandoned") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in a profile view, facing the viewer’s right. His hair is slightly long on his neck, and he has a sharp, pointed labret or lip ornament protruding forward from his chin.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Three other Mocauhqui glyphs all show men wearing European-style hats. This one is very different. Alonso de Molina's translation for mocauhqui is "casado," but Rémi Siméon (1977, 282) gives "dejado, abandonado." The verb cahua fits this latter translation somewhat better.

Batalla Rosado and Ruz Barrio present an argument for interpreting mocauhqui as sacerdote (priest). [See: El arte de escribir (Zinacantepec, Estado de Mexico: El Colegio Mexiquense, 2018, 101–103.] Most examples of mocauhqui in this manuscript are men who wear a European hat. This one is not Europeanized.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

ant^o mocauhqui

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Antonio Mocauhqui

Gloss/Text 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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Family, Kinship, even Friendship

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

casados, abandonados, dejados, bezotes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

mocauhqui, a married person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mocauhqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Hombre Casado o Abandonado/Dejado

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 836r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=746&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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