Ohuazaca (MH595v)

Ohuazaca (MH595v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ohuazaca (“Green Maize Stalk-Hay,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of the top of a maize plant, which must represent the Ohua- (green maize stalk, ohuatl) part of the name, and two vertical blades of grass or hay (zacatl). The maize plant appears to have part of the stalk, some leaves, and one ear of corn. The tip of the blade of grass on the left curls somewhat.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

If these two logograms that form the compound are meant to be taken literally is difficult to say. Perhaps they are phonograms that combine to give phonetic indicators for name of some other type of plant.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

gonçalo ovaçaca

Gloss Normalization: 

Gonzalo Ohuazaca

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

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

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
back to front
Keywords: 

maize, maíz, fodder, grass, hay, forraje, heno, hierba, plantas, nombres de hombres

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

ohua(tl), green maize stalk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ohuatl
zaca(tl), grass or hay, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Caña-Heno

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 595v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=270&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)

ohuatl (HJ276:79pt2:62r)

zacatl (Mdz13r)

zacatl (Mdz40r)