Techan (MH834v)

Techan (MH834v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Techan ("A Dwelling Place" or “Someone Else's Home," attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of a typical house (calli) or home (chantli), facing toward the viewer's right. The lower part of the T-shaped entrance to the building is painted black. The nonspecific human object pronoun, Te-, is translated here as "someone's." It is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā techa

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Techan

Gloss 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: 
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
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
rectangular
segmented
T-shapes
Keywords: 

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

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Lugar de Residencia, o el Hogar de Alguien

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 834v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=743&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 (MH525v)