Quetzalmamaz (MH810r)

Quetzalmamaz (MH810r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Quetzalmamaz (perhaps “Quetzal Fletching”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of one horizontal feather with a calamus down the center and downy barbs near the tip.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

If this is not an apocopation for quetzalmamazo, then perhaps the verb mama (to carry) is given here in the third person singular future tense, and the name would then be something like “He Will Carry Quetzal Feathers.”

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)

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

horizontal

Keywords:

flechas, plumas, quetzales, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

quetzalmamazo, arrows with precious feather fletching, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalmamazo
quetzal(li), quetzal feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
mama, to carry or bear, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mama

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Flechas Emplumadas con Quetzales

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 810r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=694&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: