Yohualichan (MH708v)

Yohualichan (MH708v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yohualichan (perhaps, “His House at Night”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a house (usually calli, but here the noun is -chan, possessed in the third person singular). The building is rectangular and shown in a frontal view. The entryway is dark, and it is framed by what are probably wooden beams painted red.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Further research is required to quantify any possible difference between cal- and chan-, which seem to employ the same visuals. They can appear in a frontal or a side view. See some other examples of chan-, below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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)

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

rectangular

frontal view

Keywords:

casas, hogares, edificios, arquitectura, noches, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yohual(li), night, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yohualli
chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli
I- (third person singular possessive pronoun), his, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Su Hogar de Noche

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 708v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=495&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).

Orthography:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: