Atle Icuauh (MH905v)

Atle Icuauh (MH905v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Atle Icuauh (“He Has No Wood,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a human (left) hand holding three pieces of rectangular wood.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Interestingly, the "atle" negative component of the name is not shown visually. The hand suggests possession, and not the lack of it. This is true, too, one of the other examples (below).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ju^o. antle yquauh

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Atle Icuauh

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:

atle (negated quantifier or qualifier)

noun(s)

phrase or sentence

possessive suffix (-e)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Gestures with hands

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

wood, leña, madera, manos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

atle, nothing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atle
cuahui(tl), wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl
i-, (possessive pronoun), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

No Tiene Leña

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 905v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=883&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:

"q" for c

"y" for i

intrusive "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: