Yaote (MH498r)

Yaote (MH498r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yaote ("War Captain") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a war shield in black with white trim. This shield often represents the word yaotl (enemy, combatant, or war). This shield is a circle with fringe at the bottom. Inside the circle, around the perimeter, are four half-circles, evenly spread. In the center is a small circle, completing the quincunx shape. To the left of the shield is an anthropomorphic mouth. The mouth is open, and both upper and lower teeth are visible. But the reference is to the lips (tentli), a phonetic indicator for the "te" part of the name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Manuel Orozco y Berra (1880) suggests that the name Yaote is a "radical de yaotequihua, capitan de guerra, y tambien los verbos yaotachcauhti, y su sinónimo yaoteca, capitanear en la guerra." He says the same of the spelling Yaoten. Thus, we are translating Yaote as "War Captain."

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego
yaoten

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Yaote (or Yaoten)

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
facing right
profile view
quincunx or quatrefoil
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

fronteras, bordes, enemigos, combatientes, capitanes de guerra, guerreros, nombres de hombres

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

yao(tl), enemy, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
ten(tli), lip, mouth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Capitán de Guerra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=75&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: 

Yaote (MH777r)