Quetzalxiuh (MH531v)

Quetzalxiuh (MH531v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Quetzalxiuh (“Quetzal-Turquoise [Tesserae],” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of three, curving, upright quetzalli (quetzal feathers). Below the feathers are five small rectangles of the sort typically employed to refer to turquoise (xihuitl) mosaic pieces or tesserae.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

These turquoise tesserae are often used as the glyph for the name Xiuhnel, but sometimes a foot ("xo"?) may be added as a phonetic complement.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

filipe queçalxiuh

Gloss Normalization:

Felipe Quetzalxiuh

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Color names

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Turquoise or Jade

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

mosaic

rectangular

vertical, upright

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

feathers, plumas, quetzales, mosáicos, tesserae, turquesa, turquoise, pieces

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

quetzal(li), the feathers of the quetzal bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
xihui(tl), turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Quetzal-Turquesa [para mosáicos]

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 531v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=142&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:

"ç" for z or tz

"i" for e

Historical Contextualizing Image: