Pain (MH676v)

Pain (MH676v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Pain (“He Ran Fast,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of a footprint (which here stands 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), with the banner flying to the right of the staff. The word for flag is a phonetic indicator for the Pa- start to the name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See the article in this collection, “Multivalence of Footprints,” to learn of their broad usage and many readings. The flag is also ubiquitous and can often serve as the phonetic syllable -pa or -pan.

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
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: 
profile view
bird's eye view
facing right
Keywords: 

huellas, banderas, correr rápido, nombres de hombres

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: 

Corrió Rápido

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 676v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=433&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 (MH670v)