Ihuitl Temoc (MH838v)

Ihuitl Temoc (MH838v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ihuitl Temoc (“The Feather Descended”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a vertical feather (ihuitl), where the lower half consists of downy barbs, and the upper half is a white vane. The lower tip of the calamus nearly touches the top of two alternating footprints (which have the semantic meaning of the verb temo, to descent). The footprints appear in a bird’s eye view. The preterit tense (-c) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

There was a famous don Diego Luis Moctezuma Ihuitl Temoc (also spelled Ihuitemotzin). Perhaps this Alonso is named for don Diego or another illustrious person who shared this name. The gloss for this name has some separation between the two words. Sometimes these elements are run together in the gloss. See below for some other examples of glyphs for Ihuitl Temoc. One has the feather with the calamus upward, and one employs down feathers instead of wing feathers. This latter example, from the Codex Vergara (f. 9v) has an added stone (tetl) as a phonetic complement.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

fra^co yvitl temoc

Gloss Normalization:

Francisco Ihuitl Temoc

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)

verb

preterit tense

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Footprint(s), human

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

plumas descendientes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ihui(tl), feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl
temo, to descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temo

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

La Pluma Descendió

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 838v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=751&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

"y" for i

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: