Nahuatl (MH826r)

Nahuatl (MH826r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Nahuatl is attested here as a man's name. Four speech scrolls emerge from a man's head in profile, looking toward the right. This is not the tribute payer's head, but another one.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Sometimes, signs for the phonetic locative suffix -nahuac (near) involve speech scrolls, which have the value of nahuatl, a near homophone for -nahuac. See examples below. Glyphs in this database, such as this one for just speech alone, are few so far (with 5000+ glyphs studied). The ends of these volutes scroll under.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo navatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Nahuatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wooe

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: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

nombres de hombres, idiomas, lenguas, sonidos agradables, volutas, hablar

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

nahua(tl), language or pleasant sound, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuatl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 826r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=726&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).

Orthography: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

nahuatl (Mdz51r)

nahuatl (Mdz23r)

nahuatl (Mdz7v)

nahuatl (Mdz6r)