Ohua (MH831v)

Ohua (MH831v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ohua (“Green Maize Stalk”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a plant with two stalks (ohuatl). Each one has spiky leaves and a fuzzy, curling top. One curls to the right and one curls to the left.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Curiously, this glyph is nearly identical to the one on MH831r that is glossed Yohual. Perhaps it was meant as a near homophone for Yohual. But here, it does resemble some of the other maize plants, such as a couple of ohuatl plants, along with toctli and xilotl.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā ova

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Ohua

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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
frontal view
spiky
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Keywords: 

plantas, maíz, comida, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Planta de Maíz

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 831v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=737&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: 

Ohua (MH564r)

ohuatl (Mdz37r)

ohuatl (HJ276:79pt2:62r)

Ohuazaca (MH595v)

Ohuatl (MH642v)

Ohuatl (MH639v)

Ohua (MH503v)

Chayahual (MH831r)

toctli (Mdz29r)