Mocauhqui (MH779r)

Mocauhqui (MH779r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mocauhqui (either ”Married Man” or "Left/Abandoned") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. He wears a European-style hat (something like a Fedora).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The hat may have been something a few married men wore. But it is rare in this collection. Two other examples of men wearing this same hat are also named Mocauhqui. See below. Alonso de Molina's translation for mocauhqui is "casado," but Rémi Siméon (1977, 282) gives "dejado, abandonado." The verb cahua fits this latter translation somewhat better.

literally "one who has been left behind, abandoned," from the verb cahua.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

alosun . mocauhqui

Gloss Normalization:

Alonzo Mocauhqui

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

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

sombrero de fieltro, casado, dejado, abandonado, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

mocauhqui, a married man, or someone who has been left or abandoned, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mocauhqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Hombre Casado o Abandonado/Dejado

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 779r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=632&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:

dropped "n"

intrusive "n"

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: