Yaopain (MH871r)

Yaopain (MH871r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yaopain (perhaps “The Combatant Ran Fast”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a war shield (often representing yaotl, combatant), and descending footprints below that (referring to running fast, the verb paina). The shield is divided into four quadrants with an X-shape. Three of the quadrants have a small circle or U-shape.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See two other glyphs for this name, below. They are all quite similar.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

estephā yaopay

Gloss Normalization: 

Estéban Yaopain

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
cross (x)
frontal view
U-shapes (any direction)
X-shapes
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

correr rápido, huellas, escudos, guerra, combatientes, nombres de hombres

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

yao(tl), enemy, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
yaoyo(tl), warfare, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaoyotl
paina, to run fast, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/paina

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Combatiente Corrió Rápido

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 871r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=814&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: 
"p" or "ph" for f, p, or b
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Yaopain (MH487v)

Yaopain (MH522r)