Yaopain (MH487v)

Yaopain (MH487v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yaopain ("Fast-Running Combatant," attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a war shield typically used for the name "Combatant" (Yaotl) and a bird's eye view of a footprint heading downward, which here stands for the verb paina, "to run fast." The war shield is divided into four parts with a large X, and a simple design in each quadrant.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Footprint(s), human
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
cross (x)
facing downward
bird's eye view
frontal view
quincunx or quatrefoil
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

war, guerra, combatiente, combatant, shield, rodela, huellas, footprints

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

yaotl, enemy, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
paina, to run fast, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/paina

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Combatiente Corre

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 487r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=53&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: 
See Also: 

Pain (MH519r)

temo (MH487r)