Motenehua (MH613v)

Motenehua (MH613v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Motenehua (perhaps "Mentioned") is attested here as a man's name. The gloss is meant to be a number of speech scrolls or volutes that indicate the verb motenehua, to express or mention. However, in the mix seems to be a butterfly (papalotl) or other insect that was probably a mistake.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juā moteneua

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Motenehua

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Politics, Power, Governance
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Sensory Perception
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Keywords: 

said, above mentioned, dicho y escuchado, mencionado

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

tenehua, to express, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenehua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Mencionado, o Dicho

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 613v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=309st=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: 
dropped "h"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Concaquitl (MH491r)