Yauhtemoc (MH543v)

Yauhtemoc (MH543v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yauhtemoc is attested here as a man's name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
visual movement
visual plural (multiples of objects)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres

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

yauh, to go, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yauh
temoa, to descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temoa-0

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 543v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=166&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: