Ohuaton (MH816v)

Ohuaton (MH816v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ohuaton (“Small Stalk of Green Maize”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a vertical, fresh, maize plant with two leaves half way up the stalk and four tassels (flowers) curving off the top.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Note the use of the suffix -ton (a diminutive) on other glyphs below. Sometimes it is a challenge to see that a glyph or an element of a glyph is small.

Added Analysis, 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: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Corn, Maize
Flowers
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

maíz, plantas, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pequeña Caña Tierna de Maíz

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 816v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=707&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
intrusive "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Calton (MH504r)

Teton (MH593r)

Miton (MH843v)