Poctlehual (MH774r)

Poctlehual (MH774r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Poctlehual ("Hot Smoke") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows four vertical curls of smoke (poctli). Three curl to the right and one to the left. They are half gray and half white along the length of each curl. The -tlehual ending to the name, which refers to heat, is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p^o poctlehual

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Poctlehual

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

adjective

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Sensory Perception

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

gray

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

vertical, upright

volute(s)

Keywords:

humo, fuego, calor, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

poc(tli), smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poctli
tlehualani, to be very hot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlehualani

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Humo Caliente

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 774r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=622&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: