Quito (MH842v)

Quito (MH842v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex personal name Quito ("He Said It," attested here as a man's name) shows a man's head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Coming out of his mouth are speech scrolls, providing the essence of the verb itoa (or ihtoa, with the glottal stop, "to say"). They represent what he said (oral communication).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In this case, the words are oral, coming out of the man's mouth. They are (the tlatolli or tlahtolli, with the glottal stop) that he has spoken. Words (tlatolli represented as scrolls) are rarely shown in glyphs as written down. Three examples appear below.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

anto quito

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Quito

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
pronoun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
volute(s)
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

speech, speak, volutes, scrolls, hablar, palabras, volutas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

-c-, third person singular object pronoun (also -qui-), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c-2
itoa, to say, to speak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itoa

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 842v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=759&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: 

itoa (FCbk4f19v)

Ce Quitoa (MH551v)

Mocnoitoa (MH660r)

tlatolli (TR25v)

Tlatol (MH533v)

Ilhuizol (MH897v)

tlacuiloliztli (Mdz70r)

tlacuiloliztli (TR30r)