Acapixahua (MH629v)

Acapixahua (MH629v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Acapixahua is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a frontal view of an array of four segmented reeds (acatl), some of them tipping to the viewer's left. Perhaps the spread of the reeds is meant to hint at the verb pixahui, to sprinkle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Diego
acapixava

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Diego Acapixahua

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive suffix (-hua)

verb

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

reeds, canes, cañas, carrizo, sprinkle, mist, rociar, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

aca(tl), reed or cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
pixahui, to mist or sprinkle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pixahui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Caña Pizca

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 629v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=341st=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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: