Yohuaya (MH614v)

Yohuaya (MH614v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yohuaya (perhaps "It Was Becoming Dark" or "It Used to be Dark") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a curving night sky with about ten radiating lines going up from the top of the curve. The bottom of the sky almost drips downward.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See below for other representations of nighttime and some representations of skies. Some shapes are curved at the top and some at the bottom.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dieo youaya

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Yohuaya

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: 
calendrics
personal name
Syntax: 
verb
imperfect tense
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Celestial Phenomena
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
Shapes and Perspectives: 
shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement
circle, circular or rounded
circle (half)
frontal view
Keywords: 

negro, noche, verbos, nombres de hombres

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

yohua, to become dark, to become night, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yohua
yohual(li), nighttime, all night, each night, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yohualli

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 614v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=311&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: 
"u" for hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Yohual (MH568v)

Yohual (MH488r)

Yohual (MH618v)

Yohualahuech (MH624v)

citlalin (Mdz17v)

Ilhuicaxochitl (MH572v)

ilhuicatl (TR42r)

ixtli (Mdz63r)