Ohua (MH503v)

Ohua (MH503v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ohua refers to a green plant stalk or cane (ohuatl). The visual is a nearly horizontal, frontal or bird's eye view, of a cane that looks something like bamboo, given the segmentation. There are also two angular lines on the cane.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco
hohuā

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Ohua (or possibly Ohuan, if the "n" is not intrusive)

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Keywords: 

canes, cañas, plants, plantas, ohuatl, tallo

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

ohua(tl), green maize stalk or sugar cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ohuatl

Image Source: 
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).

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