Techan (MH651r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Techan ("Stone Home," or "Someone's Home") is attested here as a man's name. A horizontal stone (tetl) with a black diagonal stripe and small circles at its ends may provide a phonetic indicator for the start of the name, Te-, if it is meant as the indefinite object ("someone's"). If it is meant to say "stone home," then it is logographic. The -chan part of the name is derived semantically from the small building in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The building is implied to be a home (-chan), even though it also looks like a calli, house or generic building, with its red T-shaped beams at the entrance.
Stephanie Wood
The circles on the three visible corners of the stone are reminiscent of the shimmer given to the chalchihuitl stone or the mirror, etc. The tetl usually just have curly ends.
matheo techan
Mateo Techan
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
casas, edificios, piedras, nombres de hombres
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te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
te- (nonspecific human object prefix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli
Hogar de Piedra
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 651r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=384&st=image
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