Cihuanemitl (MH686v)

Cihuanemitl (MH686v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cihuanemitl (perhaps “Woman-Goes-Around,” attested here as a man’s name) shows the head of a woman in profile, looking toward the viewer’s left. She wears the traditional hairstyle that has points of hair up by her forehead. She may have an earring, or perhaps there is a box where her ear would be, and maybe it has the double vertical lines of huahuana/cihua. Below this head three footprints appear to go in various directions, perhaps representing the verb nemi, to go around. In the name, an absolutive has been added to nemi, making it into a noun (nemitl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a man’s name but has a female dimension in its content. The significance of this remains to be researched. See another version of this name (Cihuanemi) below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juā çiuanemitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Cihuanemitl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres, mujeres, género, huellas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Mujer-Anda-Por-Allá

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 686v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=453&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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