Pain (MH670v)

Pain (MH670v)
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 or Pain. The flag is shown with the banner upright and 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. The tlacuilo who drew another Pain hieroglyph also included a flag as a phonetic indicator. But some glyphs for Pain show only footprints.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Sports, Games, Leisure
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

footprints, huellas, flags, banderas, banners, nombres de hombres

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: 

Corre Rápido

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 670v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=421&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: 

Pain (MH591v)

Pain (MH519r)

Pain (MH498v)

Yaopain (MH522r)

Pain (MH676v)