Miztli Yauh (MH885v)

Miztli Yauh (MH885v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Miztli Yauh (perhaps “The Cougar Goes”) is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph shows a profile view (facing right) of the head of a feline, identified as a cougar (miztli) by the gloss. Water (atl) comes down from the animal’s head in three little streams, each one with a droplet/bead or shell at the lower end. This water (atl) is a phonetic indicator for the verb yauh (to go).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Another Miztli Yauh–also a woman’s name–appears in this collection (see below). That one has a cougar’s head on a long stream of water, almost as if the stream is directing him forward, to go somewhere.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

maria miztliyauh

Gloss Normalization:

María Miztli Yauh (or Miztliyauh)

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

verb

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Misc.

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

facing right

profile view

striped

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

pumas, cougars, agua, verbos, ir, gatos silvestres, wildcats, widows, viudas, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

miz(tli), cougar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miztli
yauh, to go, go along, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yauh

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Puma Va

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 885v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=843&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: