Xipeuh (MH842r)

Xipeuh (MH842r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xipeuh (perhaps “Hairless”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a partially husked ear of corn.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The term xipeuhtli can refer to anything hairless, not just the bald head of a man, so the maize cob could be a metaphor or the term night refer to it having been husked and the silk removed. A number of men in the glyphs in this collection are balding, but the language for balding does not usually enter into the glyph name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio xipeuh

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Xipeuh

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: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

mazorcas, elotes, calvo, nombres de hombres

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

xipeuh(tli), something hairless or a bald person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xipeuhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Calvo o Descascarillado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 842r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=758&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: 

Motolinia (MH788v)

huehue (CQ)

pipia (MH483r)

Coxcox (MH817r)

Aoc Tocniuh (MH489v)