Quiyahuacatl (MH634v)

Quiyahuacatl (MH634v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or affiliation, Quiyahuacatl ("Outdoor Person," or perhaps someone from Quiyahuac), is attested here as a man's name. It shows a profile view of a house or building (a very simplified calli), which serves as a silent locative and supports the person having an affiliation (-catl) with a place. The rain is shown as a triangular flow of water with a droplet or bead at the bottom. The glyph for rain seems actually to be a phonetic indicator for outdoors (quiyahuac) which is also supported by the placement of the raindrop at the entrance to the building.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

q~yavacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Quiyahuacatl

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:

calendrics

day name

phonetic dimensions

personal name

Syntax:

locative (visual but silent)

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Water

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

Keywords:

rain, lluvia, casas, houses, building, edificios, temples, templos, entradas, afuera

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

quiyahui(tl), rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl
quiyahuac, outside or at the entrance, ttps://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuc
cal(li), house, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-ca(tl), affiliation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Persona de la Entrada

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 634v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=351st=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:

"d" for t

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: