Tamalhuilan (MH551v)

Tamalhuilan (MH551v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tamalhuilan (“He Dragged Tamales,” attested here as a man’s name) shows what may be a tamale (tamalli) being dragged (from the verb huilana) with a rope held by one or two hands.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This suffix -huilan, having to do with dragging something, seems to typically have that object tied by a rope, with a length of the rope left for the act of pulling or dragging. See two additional examples below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

[t]homas tamavilā

Gloss Normalization:

Tomás Tamalhuilan

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)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Rope, cord

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

twisted or entwined

wavy

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

ropes, mecates, tamales, hands, manos, arrastrar, tamalli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tamalhuia, to make tamales for others, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tamalhuia
huilana, to drag something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huilana

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Arrastró Tamales

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 551v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=182&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: