Motlahuizoma (MH633v)

Motlahuizoma (MH633v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Motlahuizoma is attested here as a man's name. The translation requires further investigation. The verb tlahuizoa refers to letting something fall, and the human head here is facing downward, perhaps falling. The -zoma ending that some see as meaning angry when it appears at the end of the name Motecuhzoma, is not indicated visually here. The contribution of the upright feather fan is unclear.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Domas
motlaviçoma

Gloss Normalization: 

Tomas Motlahuizoma

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)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Emotions
Feathers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing downward
frontal view
profile view
shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement
vertical, upright
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

brillar, fruncir, cabeza, plumas

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

tlahuizoa, to let something fall, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuizo%C4%81
zoma, to frown in anger, to become angry, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zoma
zomal(li), anger, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zomalli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 633v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=349st=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: 
"ç" for z or tz
"d" for t
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xiuhcoatl (Azca12)