Yollo (MH783v)

Yollo (MH783v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yollo (perhaps “Sharp Witted”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a human heart in a frontal view.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In our Online Nahuatl Dictionary entry for Yollo, James Lockhart discusses the considerable range of terms starting with yol- and yollo- that Molina includes in his Vocabulario, most of them pointing to “the mind, the emotions, and volition.” Gradually, the European style of heart takes the place of this earlier sign for the heart, as some examples reveal below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

matheo yolloh

Gloss Normalization: 

Mateo Yollo

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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Emotions
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Personality, Behavior
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

corazones, ábil, ingenioso, nombres de hombres

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

yollo, skilled and sharp witted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yollo
yollo(tl), heart, life, spirits, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yollotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Ingenioso

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 783v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=641&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: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

yollotl (Mdz16v)

Yollo (MH639v)

Cuauhyollo (MH643v)

Cihuayollo (MH575v)