Yohualxoch (MH632v)

Yohualxoch (MH632v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painting of the compound glyph for the personal name Yohualxoch ("Night Flower") is attested here as a woman's name. It shows a white flower (xochitl) on the square black night (yohualli) sky. The flower has three visible petals, which is typical for the glyphs in this manuscript. Below the black square of night is the stem of the flower.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

gatalena
yovalxoch

Gloss Normalization:

Catalina Yohualxoch

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

Flowers

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

flowers, flores, night, noche, cielo negro, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Yohual, a person's name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yohual
yohual(li), nighttime, each night, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yohualli
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=347&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:

"e" for i

"g" for c, q, or x

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: