Quetzalhuacan (MH730r)

Quetzalhuacan (MH730r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Quetzalhuacan (perhaps “Where They Have Quetzal Feathers”). A building with a frontal view serves as a semantic locative for -can (the suffix, “where”). Inside the building is a quetzal feather fan. The grasping hand that holds the feather fan underlines the syllable hua of possession.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
hua (grasping hand)
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Feathers
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

plumas, quetzales, poseer, tener, manos, donde, barrios, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

quetzal(li), quetzal feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
-hua (possession), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
-can (locative suffix), where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Donde Tienen Plumas Quetzales

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 730r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=538&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Quetzalhuacan (MH627r)