Ohua (MH503v)

Ohua (MH503v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ohua refers to a green plant stalk or cane (ohuatl). The visual is a nearly horizontal, frontal or bird's eye view, of a cane that looks something like bamboo, given the segmentation. There are also two angular lines on the cane.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco
hohuā

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Ohua (or possibly Ohuan, if the "n" is not intrusive)

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
horizontal
linear or multiple straight lines
segmented
Keywords: 

canes, cañas, plants, plantas, ohuatl, tallo

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

ohua(tl), green maize stalk or sugar cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ohuatl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 503v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=86&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: 
intrusive "h" or "hu"
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

ohuatl (Mdz37r)

ohuatl (HJ276:79pt2:62r)