Chilatl (MH895r)

Chilatl (MH895r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chilatl (“Chile Water” or “Chile Beverage”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an upright chile pepper (chilli) with a stem surrounded by swirling water (atl) with lines of current (movement). The water is cut off in the lower left corner, because the artist ran out of room next to the head of the tribute payer whose name glyph this is.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The water as shown is not a beverage, so perhaps it is a phonetic indicator for the water in the beverage.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio. chillatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Chilatl

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 possibilities
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
outward (from inside out)
Keywords: 

chiles, agua, remolinos, bebidas, nombres de hombres

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

chila(tl), chile water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chilatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Agua de Chile o Aguachil

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 895r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=862&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: 
"ll" for l
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cocoatl (MH663r)