Tecanal (MH745v)

Tecanal (MH745v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing shows a stone (tetl), in the foreground, which either another stone or a flower behind it. The stone in the foreground is nearly horizontal. It has the diagnostic curly ends and diagonal stripes across the middle. The stones provides the phonetic indication that this name starts with Te-. The rest (-canal) is not shown visually. The gloss is required for full understanding by outsiders.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (visual)
syllable: te, teo, or tel (from tetl or tentli)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
frontal view
striped
Keywords: 

piedras, jícama, comida, vegetales, nombres de hombres

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

tecanalxihui(tl), a plant like jicama, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecanalxihuitl
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
xihu(itl), plant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Jícama

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 745v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=569&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: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tetl (Mdz17v)

tetl (MH483r)

Tetl (MH622r)