nahuatl (Verg10v)

nahuatl (Verg10v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the element nahuatl (speech, language) has been extracted from the compound Xochhua. In that compound, these speech scrolls may have played a phonetic role for the syllable "hua," but we are including it here as an independent logogram. The sign includes three volutes or scrolls, all pointing in different directions. Each one curls upward and to the right at the end.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Vergara, Codex (Verg)
Date of Manuscript: 

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Syntax: 
noun(s)
visible sound
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

discursos, idiomas, volutas

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

nahu(atl), something that makes an agreeable sound, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el idioma, volutas de discurso

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Vergara, folio 10v, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f28.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

The non-commercial reuse of images from the Bibliothèque nationale de France is free as long as the user is in compliance with the legislation in force and provides the citation: “Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France” or “Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.” We would also appreciate a citation to the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/.

See Also: 

Xochhua (Verg10v)

nahuatl (Mdz51r)

nahuatl (Mdz17v)

nahuatl (MH492r)