Macuilquiyauh (MH643r)

Macuilquiyauh (MH643r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-lie drawing of the simplex glyph plus notation for the personal name Macuilquiyauh ("Five-Rain" or "5-Rain," attested here as a man's name) shows five (macuilli) short vertical lines with the day sign for rain (quiyahuitl) below the notation. This is a triangular shaped stream of water that contains lines of current (movement) and a droplet at the bottom.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is a calendrical name, drawn from the 260-day tonalpohualli divinatory calendar.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

fran^co macui guiyauh

Gloss Normalization:

Francisco Macuilquiyauh

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:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Water

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiky

triangular

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

Keywords:

lluvia, días, days, calendarios, calendars, fechas, dates, nombres calendáricos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli
quiyahui(tl), rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cinco Lluvia, o 5-Lluvia

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 643r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=368&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

dropped "l"

Historical Contextualizing Image: