Onehua (MH837r)

Onehua (MH837r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Onehua (perhaps “He Goes Away”) is attested here as a man’s name. Another meaning for onehua is to just come together, but the graphics suggest going away. The glyph shows a part of a leg with a foot and, next to it, a footprint. One of these elements could stand for on- (“in that direction”) and the other ehua (“he departs”). Thus, while they could be paired, there is some merit in assessing this as a compound.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Onehua has very similar elements as one of the Hualacic hieroglyphs (below), except that the latter implies a direction toward the speaker rather than away. Footprints have a great many readings in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco. See the essay on the multivalence of footprints in the navigation bar on the left of the screen.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

anto oneva

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Onehua

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: 
adverb
phrase or sentence
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

partir, salir, irse, huellas, pies, nombres de hombres

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

on (a directional particle, away from the speaker), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/on
ehua, to rise and depart, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehua
onehua, for things to just come together, just reach, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/onehua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Sale o Se Va

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 837r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=748&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: 

Hualacic (MH826r)

Hualacic (MH837r)