Coyohuacan (Osu34v)

Coyohuacan (Osu34v)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the place name Coyohuacan ("Place With Coyotes"), spelled Coyoacán in contemporary Mexican Spanish. The compound features the head of a coyotl (coyote) in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The color is largely white, but the fur is mottled and the nose is blackened. The animal's teeth are almost visible. This head sits on the top of a green, bell-shaped mountain or hill.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

coyohuacan

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Coyohuacan

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Osuna, Codex (Osu)

Date of Manuscript:

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Coyotes/Wolves

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

animales, nombres de lugares, topónimo, topónimos, place names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

coyo(tl), coyote, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyotl
-hua- (possessive suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
-can (locative suffix), place where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Donde Tienen Coyotes

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights:

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