Quizqui (MH687v)

Quizqui (MH687v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Quizqui (perhaps "Emergent" or "One Who Came Out") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a horizontal stone with its usual curling ends and stripes across the middle. Coming up from behind the rock is a bald human head in a frontal view with minimalist eyes and mouth. The suggestion is that a human is emerging from behind the rock, bringing to mind the verb quiza, (to emerge or come out). The -qui (referring to the person who is emerging) suffix is not shown in any additional visual way.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See the other Quizqui glyphs below, which have people coming out or emerging in a variety of ways.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego quizqui

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Quizqui

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-Wood

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)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

cabeza, calvo, cara

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

quiza, to emerge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiza
quizqui, completed, separated, divided, or perhaps one who emerged or came out, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quizqui
-qui, one who does that thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Emergió

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 687v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=455&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: 

Quizqui (MH788v)

Quizqui (MH647r)

Quizqui (MH784v)

Quiztli (MH661v)