Tlapayauh (MH810v)

Tlapayauh (MH810v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlapayauh (“Heavy Rain” or “It Has Rained Lightly for a Long Time”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the triangular symbol for rain (quiyahuitl) but with added lines for current and added short lines and dashes at the bottom, plus the usual circle with a dot (perhaps a droplet) in the middle at the top. The added features seem to suggest a heavier rain (tlapayahuitl) than usual.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Glyphs for tlapayauh vary somewhat (below). They also do vary from just the simple rain glyph (quiyahuitl).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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)

phrase or sentence

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

striped

triangular

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

dotted, granular, textured

frontal view

Keywords:

lluvia fuerte o larga, gotas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlapayahu(itl), a heavy rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapayahuitl
tlapayahui, a long, light rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapayahui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Chubasco

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 810v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=695&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:

"l" for r

Historical Contextualizing Image: