Pain (MH519r)

Pain (MH519r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Pain ("He Runs Fast") consists of three horizontal, alternating footprints in a bird's eye view. They are headed toward the viewer's right. Five toe prints are evident for each footprint.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The multiple footprints suggest movement, and therefore could stand for the shortened verb to run, which is what the gloss conveys. Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

antonio payn

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Pain

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
phrase or sentence
verb
visible movement
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Sports, Games, Leisure
Transportation, Travel, Roads
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
horizontal
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

feet, pies, run, correr, paina

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

paina, to run fast, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/paina

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El que corra rápido

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 519r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=117&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: 

xo (Mdz43r)

quetza (Mdz30r)

pano (Mdz38r)