Mecauhqui (MH815r)

Mecauhqui (MH815r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mecauhqui (perhaps “He Who Gets Rope” or “He With One or More Mistresses”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. He has an oval-shaped hairless patch on the top of his head, toward the back.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Glyphs like this are common for the name Tlapal, but see also Mexi and Huexotzincatl, below. The hairless patch appears to be an ethnic marker at least some of the time. Another, similar name is Mocauhqui (perhaps “One Who Was Left” or “One Who Was Abandoned”), but the Me- start to this name is fairly certain.

Added Analysis, 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:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

pelo, cabello, calvo, pelón, cordones, sogas, amantes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

meca(tl), rope or cord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mecatl
-hua (singular possessive suffix), one who had, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
mecahua, a man with one or more mistresses, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mecahua
-qui, one who does this, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Él Que Obtenga Sogas, o Él Que Tiene Amantes

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 815r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=704&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

Historical Contextualizing Image: