yancuic (Mdz12r)

yancuic (Mdz12r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for yancuic (new) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Yancuictlan. The glyph is a white, horizontal rectangle. It has two vertical rows of small, slanting hash marks. It appears to be a new piece of cloth (see comparisons below).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The markings seem to suggest that the rectangle is a piece of cloth. Being pristine and white, it can represent a "new" cloth, pristine, not yet made into a piece of clothing, not yet worn, not yet stained.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
adjective
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
horizontal
rectangular
Keywords: 

nuevo, limpio, telas

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

yancuic, new, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yancuic

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

nuevo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 12 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 34 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

Yancuictlan (Mdz12r)

yancuic (Mdz43r)

manta (TK2v)

tequitl (Verg21v)

Huipilcoz (MH506v)