Ihuitlpopoca (MH765r)

Ihuitlpopoca (MH765r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ihuitlpopoca ("The Feather Smokes") is attested here as a man's name. The feather (ihuitl) in this compound is generic and upright, with a visible calamus and downy barbs at the bottom. Surrounding the feather are ten pairs of little lines. These are not the usual volutes for smoke, but they are the only suggestion of a visual that might represent the -popoca (it smokes) part of the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

gaspal yvitlpopoca

Gloss Normalization:

Gaspar Ihuitlpopoca

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)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

dotted, granular, textured

frontal view

shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

plumas, humo, humear, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ihui(tl), feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl
popoca, to give off smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Pluma Humeante

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 765r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=608&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:

"l" for r

"v" for u, uh, or hu

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: