yauh (MH515r)

yauh (MH515r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the verb "to go" (yauh) consists of a bird's eye view of two horizontal footprints. They are alternating feet, which shows movement across the landscape. The are heading toward the viewer's right. Each of these prints has six toe prints, probably made this way in haste, more with a focus on the motion and less on the detail of the footprints.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
bird's eye view
horizontal
facing right
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

yauh, to go, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yauh

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 515r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=109&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Iyaqui (MH515r)