Yaopitza (MH877v)

Yaopitza (MH877v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yaopitza (perhaps “The Combatant Huffs and Puffs”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a war shield, which usually refers to a combatant (yaotl). This is a shield that is divided in four quadrants with an X-shape making the divisions and a small shape in each quadrant, possibly intending a U-shape.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a classic yaotl shield, but it has been drawn hastily. The -pitza ending to the name is rather a vague visual, too. How it connects to breathing heavily or blowing on something is not clear.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio yaopitza

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Yaopitza

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)
phrase or sentence
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
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: 
cross (x)
frontal view
U-shapes (any direction)
X-shapes
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

guerra, combatiente, guerrero, resoplar, nombres de hombres

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

yao(tl), combatant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
pitza, to huff and puff in anger, to blow on something, or to play a wind instrument, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pitza

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Combatiente Resopla

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 877v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=827&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: 

Chochopitl (MH665r)

Pitztli (MH874v)