Quetzonpipique (MH634r)

Quetzonpipique (MH634r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Quetzonpipique (“Long Hair Wrappers?,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of the head of a man with long hair. His eye was apparently added as an afterthought and in a different ink. Two locks of long hair (quetzontli) hang from his head. Perhaps they are wrapped, which is suggested by the verb pipique, to wrap or cover something, such as a body.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

As the contextualizing image shows, this glyph was put on top of the head of the man whose name this is. The placement on the head (tzontli) is a phonetic complement for the "tzon" in the name. Thus, it is a compound glyph.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

q~tzōpipiq~

Gloss Normalization:

Quetzonpipique

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:

Death, decay, decomposition

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

multidirectional

Keywords:

long hair on the neck, pelo largo sobre el cuello

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

quetzon(tli), long hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzontli
cuatzon(tli), hair on the head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuatzontli
pipique, to wrap or cover part of one's body, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/p%C4%ABp%C4%ABqui-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Pelos Largos Envueltos

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 634r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=350&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: