Yohual (MH488r)
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This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yohual ("Night") is attested here as a man's name. It is what appears to be a black ball of yarn or cordage. The ball could serve as a phonetic complement, given that it is something round (yahualli). And night is yohualli, so they are near homophones.
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Stephanie Wood
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Date of Manuscript:
1560
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Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
yohualli, night, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yohualli
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 488r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=55&st=image.
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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).
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