Yohualahuech (MH624v)

Yohualahuech (MH624v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yohualahuech ("Night Dew") is attested here as a man's name. The element that is night (yohualli) is a circle filled in with black paint. Below the circle is an array of three, individual, short streams of water (atl), spread out, each one with a droplet at the lower tip. One black line of current runs down the middle of each stream. The streams are apparently falling (huetzi, which can evolve into -huech) from the sky. So, dew is like a rain that fell in the night, and the compound is fully logographic.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Doribio
yovallahuech

Gloss Normalization:

Toribio Yohualahuech

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Celestial Phenomena

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Keywords:

nighttime, noche, water, dew, rocío, círculos, gotas, droplets

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yohualahuech(tli), night dew, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yohualahuechtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Rocío de la Noche

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 624v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=331st=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:

"d" for t

"ll" for l

Historical Contextualizing Image: