Techocti (MH498r)

Techocti (MH498r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Techocti ("He Makes People Cry," attested here as a man’s name) shows an eye with three streams of tears flowing downward from it. This compound sign is close to the face of the person who has this name. He also has tears running down his cheeks, a semantic complement to the glyph. The tears have small circles (droplets or beads) at the lower tips.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The eye has a pointed oval around what would have been sufficient in the 1540s for an eye (just the concentric circles), suggesting European stylistic influences in drawing eyes. The verb techocti, "it makes people cry," starts with the indefinite pronoun tē. There is nothing shown visually to evoke the Te- (which in some cases will be handled with the addition of a stone, (tetl).

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, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
indefinite "te"
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Emotions
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Personality, Behavior
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
facing right
profile view
triangular
Keywords: 

tears, lágrimas, cry, llorar

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

techocti, it makes people cry, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/techocti
choca, to cry, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/choca

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=75&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: 
See Also: 

Tecuanchoca (MH510r)

Icnotlacatl (MH490v)

Tlaocol (MH483v)

Aoc Tocniuh (MH489v)

choca (TR41v)