Oyohual (MH896r)

Oyohual (MH896r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Oyohual (“Bells”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of two (ome) connecting bells (oyohualli). The bells have loops at the top for attaching to something, horizontal lines near the bottom, and a slit at the bottom of each one for the sound to escape. If the “n” after the starting O- in the gloss is intentional, then maybe the intention was a reading of onyohual (two nights), a near homophone. The name Oyohual (Bell or Bells) is much more common, however, so this is probably a safer reading than Onyohual (Two Nights).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See the Oyohual glyphs below, which will sometimes include from one to three bells. One Oyohual glyph has tiny dots, which may be a visual representation of sound.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

malcos onyohuar

Gloss Normalization:

Marcos Oyohual

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:

homophony, rebus

personal name

Syntax:

line connecting elements

noun(s)

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Keywords:

campanas, campanillas, suenan, metales, pinjantes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

oyohual(li), bell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/oyohualli
onyohual, two nights, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/onyohual

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Campanillas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 896r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=864&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:

"l" for r

"r" for l

intrusive "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: