Techan (MH525v)

Techan (MH525v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Techan (“A Dwelling Place” or perhaps "Someone's Home") is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a frontal view of a typical house (calli) or home (chantli). In this case, the latter (-chan) is indicated by the gloss. The start to the name (Te-) is a nonspecific object pronoun saying that this home belongs to someone else.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See other examples for the name Techan, below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro techa

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Techan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
noun(s)
indefinite "te"
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Wood, wooden things
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
rectangular
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

hogares, gente, buildings, edificios, casas, homes, houses, nombres de hombres

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

techan, a dwelling place or someone else’s home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/techan
te- (nonspecific human object prefix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Lugar de Residencia, o el Hogar de Alguien

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 525v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=130&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: 
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Techan (MH651r)

Techan (MH834v)

chantli (Mdz49r)

chantli (Mdz42r)

chantli (MH484v)

chantli (CmpRG)