Quiiquitoa (MH829v)

Quiiquitoa (MH829v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, perhaps Quiiquitoa or Quiquitoa (which could mean “He Orders It”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a face in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. The mouth is open, and six speech scrolls are emitted, some curling upward and some downward. These volutes may support the verb iquitoa, to order.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The gloss represents Quequitoa, but the first part may really intend “Qui-,” which provides the verb with an object. In some words, “e” and “i” are interchangeable, such as in the case of cintli and centli, for a dried ear of maize.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

di^o queq~tova

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Quiiquitoa

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

verb

visual sound

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

volute(s)

Keywords:

volutas, hablar, mandar, autoridad, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

iquitoa, to order or command, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iquitoa
itoa, to speak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Lo Ordena

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 829v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=733&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:

intrusive "v"

Historical Contextualizing Image: