Hualacic (MH671r)

Hualacic (MH671r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Hualacic (“Newly Arrived”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of two alternating footprints heading downward.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Two other glyphs for the personal name Hualacic show tall, skinny persons in a walking position, perhaps suggesting they had been on a road and were arriving. Neither one is clothed, and therefore seems somewhat vulnerable, and because there are no clothes gender is not marked. But they do seem to be men, given that women are less likely to arrive somewhere without clothing.

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: 
directional (e.g., hual)
verb
preterit tense
visible movement
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

caminar, llegar, verbos, pretérito, huellas, movimiento

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

hualacic, came to arrive; newly arrived, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hualacic
hual-, in this direction, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hual
aci, to arrive, or to reach with the hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/aci

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Recién Llegado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 671r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=422&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: 

Hualacic (MH499r)

Hualacic (MH503r)