Zayol (MH642v)

Zayol (MH642v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Zayol ("Fly," attested here as a man's name) shows a black fly with two bent legs, two hatched wings, and two curling antennae.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The name Zayol shares something with the term for honey bee, necuzaolin.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juan çaol

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Zayol

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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
checked, cross-hatched, or mesh
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Keywords: 

moscas, insectos, alas, nombres de hombres, Zaol

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

zayol(in), a fly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zayolin
necuzaol(in), a honey bee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/necuzaolin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Abeja

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 642v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=367&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: 
"ç" for z or tz
dropped "y"
Historical Contextualizing Image: