Icihuachan (MH735v)

Icihuachan (MH735v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Icihuachan (“Woman’s Home”), is attested here as a man’s name. One element is a house (calli) intended for the word home (chantli). It is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. Inside the entryway is the head of a woman, also in profile facing left. She has the standard mature woman’s hairstyle, the neaxtlahualli.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

For a long time, it was presumed that chan- (home) was never attested as chantli, since it is usually possessed by someone or something. But see the personal name, Chantli, below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

merchiol
ycivachan

Gloss Normalization:

Melchor Icihuachan

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)

possessive pronoun

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (female)

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

mujeres, hogares, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli
i- (third person singular possessive), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Hogar de la Mujer

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 735v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=549&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).

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