Miztli Yauh (MH632v)

Miztli Yauh (MH632v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Miztli Yauh (perhaps "The Mountain Lion Goes," attested here as a woman's name) shows the head of a mountain lion (miztli) in profile looking toward the viewer's right. Below him is a stream of water (atl), which can provide the phonetic "a" of yauh (to go). The stream of water has a line of current (movement), but it also has three lines on the left end, further suggesting movement, which could additionally feed into the verb yauh.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juana
miztliyauh

Gloss Normalization: 

Juana Miztli Yauh

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Keywords: 

widows, viudas, nombres de mujeres, wild cats, pumas, cougars, rivers, ríos, verbos, ir, miztliyauh

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Puma Va, o El Río del Puma

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=347st=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).

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