Yaocuicuil (MH592r)

Yaocuicuil (MH592r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yaocuicuil (“Combatant of Many Colors,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of the shield that usually translates combatant (yaotl) when referring to a person. Coming out of the top of the shield, from behind, is perhaps the had of a turtle (ayotl), which is a near homophone for yaotl. The texturing of the shield may also point to a turtle's back.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

To the right of this name glyph is a hand holding a writing or painting implement. This seems to be a reference to the man's occupation, as a writer/painter (tlacuilo). It is probably a coincidence that the "cuil" of the occupation overlaps with the "cuil" (reduplicated) in the personal name glyph.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

nigolas yaocuicuil

Gloss Normalization:

Nicolás Yaocuicuil

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:

phonetic dimensions

personal name

homophony, rebus

Syntax:

cuil (tracking)

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

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 upward

frontal view

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

shields, escudos, rodelas, turtles, tortugas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yao(tl), combatant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
cuicuiltic, marked up or multicolored, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicuiltic
ayo(tl), turtle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayotl
icuiloa, to write or paint, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icuiloa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Combatiente Pecoso

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 592v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=264&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: