Ohuatl (MH639v)

Ohuatl (MH639v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ohuatl ("Green Maize Stalk," attested here as male) shows a streamlined maize stalk with two leaves. Unlike some other examples of ohuatl glyphs, this one is not bearing the tender, edible corn cobs ripening on the cane.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This man's full name was Dionisio Ohuatl, as shown in the contextualizing image.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

ouatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Ohuatl

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Corn, Maize
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
vertical, upright
frontal view
Keywords: 

plantas de maíz, milpa, tallo, caña de maíz, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la planta del maíz

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 639v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=361&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

ohuatl (Mdz37r)