Nellicihuatl (MH742r)

Nellicihuatl (MH742r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Nellicihuatl (perhaps “True-Woman”) is attested here as the name of a woman. The glyph is simply a woman’s head in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. Here hair is long and hanging down, not fashioned in the usual hairstyle (neaxtlahualli) associated with cihuatl.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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:

Gender (female)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

Keywords:

nombres de mujeres, mujeres verdaderas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

nel(li), true, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nelli
cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Verdadera Mujer

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 742r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=562&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:

"çi" for ci

"l" for ll

dropped "h"

Historical Contextualizing Image: