Momanepano (MH555v)

Momanepano (MH555v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or marital status, Momanepano (“Newlywed,” attested here as a man’s name), shows two hands (maítl) joining (nepanoa) one another. In contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl, nepanoa means, "to hold someone’s hand with intertwined fingers." The term for newlywed is momanepanoqui.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juā momanepano

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Momanepano

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Family, Kinship, even Friendship

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

marriage, casamiento, recién casados, newlyweds, hands, manos, cruzar, cruzando, juntando, casarse

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

momanepanoqui, a newlywed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/momanepanoqui
ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
nepanoa, to join, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nepanoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Recién Casado

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 555v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=190&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: