Yaoxel (MH841r)

Yaoxel (MH841r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yaoxel (perhaps “Divided Combatant”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two war shields that are identical in size and design (a visual plural). They both have white crosses on a black field, and they both have the head and front legs and feet of turtles (ayotl), poking out from underneath the tops of the shields. The turtles provide a phonetic complement to yaotl (in this context, combatant) implied by the war shields (normally called chimalli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The two shields provide the clue to the -xel ending to the name, given that this element refers to division, often into two or more pieces.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo yaoxel

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Yaoxel

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: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
visual plural (multiples of objects)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
cross (+)
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
front to back
left to right
Keywords: 

partir, dividir, repartir, compartir, guerra, escudos, nombres de hombres

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

yao(tl), combatant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
xel-, a root relating to dividing, dispensing, distributing, cutting up, dispersing, etc., https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xel
xelihui, to divide in two, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xelihui
xeloa, to divide, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xeloa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Combatiente Dividido

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 841r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=756&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: 

yaotl (MH483r)

Yaotl (MH622r)

Yaotl (MH638v)

Ometepec (T2781:11:511r)