Zayuhcan (MH690v)

Zayuhcan (MH690v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Zayucan (perhaps “Still There”) is attested here as a man’s name. It actually shows two elements that suggest a reading of Tlacatecpanecatl. These are 1) the head of a man (tlacatl) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right, and 2) a fence-like structure (cuauhtecpantli), which provides the phonetic indication for -tecpan-.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See the very similar glyph, below, for Tlacatecpanecatl from folio 688 verso. Yet another completely different Tlacatecpanecatl glyph appears, too, on folio 762 recto.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco çayucā

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Zayuhcan

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
title/office
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
M-shapes
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

cercas, cabezas, títulos, oficios, nombres de hombres

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

zayuh, still https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zayuh
-can (locative), where, there, or somewhere, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Todavía Allá

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 690v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=461&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
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlacatecpanecatl (MH688v)

Tlacatecpanecatl (MH762r)