Yaocempan (MH829r)

Yaocempan (MH829r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yaocempan (perhaps “Enemy Line” or “Row of Warriors”) is attested here as a man’s name. At the bottom of this three-part compound is a war shield, the standard sign for enemy or combatant (yaotl), which is at the start of the name. Above the shield is a tall, rectangular white flag (panitl or pamitl) facing the viewer’s left. On the flag is an ear of corn (centli or cintli). The kernels of the maize are visible, as is the silk at the top of the cob. The flag and corn cob serve as phonetic indicators for the word cempantli (row).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Three-part compounds are somewhat rare in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, and this one is ⅔ phonetic.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

jua yaoçepā

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Yaocempan

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Corn, Maize

Flags, banners

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

War or Conflict

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

front to back

Keywords:

escudos, mazorcas, elotes, banderas, enemigos, combatientes, guerra, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yao(tl), enemy or combatant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
cempan(tli), a row, such as an agricultural row or a line of writing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cempantli
pan(itl) or pam(itl), flag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
cen(tli), dried ears of maize, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Fila de Guerreros, o Renglera del Enemigo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 829r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=732&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:

"çe" for ce

dropped "m"

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: