Macuil (MH667r)

Macuil (MH667r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph plus notation for the personal name Macuil (“Five”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a hand (maitl) and a hand-held device (ma-), like a stick, on the top of which are five black lines spread out like fingers. This notation for the number five is attached to the top of the stick where it bends and turns to the viewer’s left.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The result is a compound glyph, logographic and phonographic, because some of the parts contribute to the Ma- start to the name, and the notation adds the number five. Most likely, this name was originally a calendrical name, and there was a day name from the 260-day religious divinatory calendar (tonalpohualli) that once accompanied the number. This is one of the most popular number names in this entire collection, and it lives on in the present. See some additional examples below.

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: 
calendrics
numbers
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

cinco, mano, nombres de hombres

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

ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cinco

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 667r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=414&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: 

Macuil (MH809v)

Macuil (MH661r)

Macuil (MH525v)

Macuil (MH492v)

Macuil (MH570v)

Macuil (MH618v)

Macuil (MH648r)