Huitzilihuitl (MH771r)

Huitzilihuitl (MH771r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Huitzilihuitl is attested here as a man's name. It shows a hummingbird (huitzilin) head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. It has a long beak. Below the bird's head are two feathers (ihuitl), hanging down, with the calamus pointing up.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

More often, with Huitzilihuitl, the feathers around the hummingbird's head are small, round, down feathers. See examples below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

migue vitzinllivitl

Gloss Normalization:

Miguel Huitzilihuitl

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:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

plumas, feathers, colibríes, nombres de gobernantes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Huitzilihuitl, famous name of a ruler, hummingbird feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilihuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Plumas de Colibrí

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 771r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=616&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

dropped "l"

intrusive "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: