Tecahua (MH676r)

Tecahua (MH676r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tecahua (perhaps “He Leaves People”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of three footprints, all from a right foot, but the suggestion is movement or departure.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

To leave someone, involving the verb cahua, can lend itself to the status of widow (cahualli). A couple of examples appear below, where the women are in tears. A vaguely similar name, Tlaltecahua (below), seems to have to do with bequeathing land or else naming an ethnicity. This name, Tecahua, requires further research.

Added 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: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Emotions
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Personality, Behavior
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

huellas, dejar, abandonar, renunciar, lágrimas, nombres de hombres

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

cahua, to leave, abandon, relinquish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cahua
te- (nonspecific human object prefix), people or someone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Deja a la Gente

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 676r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=432&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: 
See Also: 

cahualli (Mdz13v)

cahualli (MH608r)

Tlaltecahua (MH499v)

Tlaltecahua (MH737r)