Tecahuetzca (MH671v)

Tecahuetzca (MH671v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecahuetzca (“He Makes fun of Others”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a head with short spiky hair and an unusual face, with eyes closed and curving fangs coming out of the mouth. This looks like the face in the glyphs for laughter (huetzquiztli). Hanging down from the mouth is an upside-down flower.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The flower does not make any apparent phonetic contribution, but perhaps it has a semantic role, being somewhat silly to be hanging from the mouth, as something that might bring laughter.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Emotions

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

undetermined as yet

Keywords:

escarnecimiento, risa, sonrisas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecahuetzca, to laugh or make fun of others,
https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tēcahuetzca
tecahuetzcani, one who mocks others, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecahuetzcani
tecahuetzquiz(tli), a mockery, or the act of mocking others, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecahuetzquiztli
huetzquiz(tli), laughter or a smile, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huetzquiztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Escarnecedor

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 671v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=423&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: