Pain (MH591v)

Pain (MH591v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Pain (“He Runs Fast,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of three alternating footprints (which here stand for the verb paina, "to run fast." To help us know which of the many possible readings of footprints are meant, the scribe has added a flag (panitl, which is a near homophone. The flag is shown with the banner to the right of the staff.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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: 

pedro pay

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Pain

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stehanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
homophony, rebus
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
phrase or sentence
verb
visible movement
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Flags, banners
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

footprints, huellas, flags, banderas, banners

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

paina, to run fast, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/paina
pan(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Corre Rápido

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 591v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=262&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: 
"y" for i
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: