Teciuhtlan (Mdz51r)

Teciuhtlan (Mdz51r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Teciuhtlan ("Near the Hail") shows a stream of water ending in a stone (tetl, here, a phonetic indicator), which stands for hail (tecihuitl). The teeth (tlantli) provide the phonetic value for the locative suffix -tlan (by, near, among).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This compound glyph for the place name Teciuhtlan features a drop of water with a stone at the end, which indicates hail (tecihuitl), with the combining form teciuh-, and next to that a pair of front teeth (tlantli), which provide the phonetic -tlan (locative suffix). The stone (tetl) provides double service, helping the reader know that the main thrust is tecihuitl (hail) and not just quiyahuitl (rain). This is rain that is stone-like.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

teçiuhtlan. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Teciuhtlan, pueblo (Teziutlan, Puebla, today)

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

place name

Syntax:

locative (visual not silent)

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Names (places)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Water

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

wavy

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

left to right

multidirectional

Keywords:

hail, hail stones, teeth, place, locative, stones, rocks, monoliths, piedras, rocas, monolitos, granizo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone or rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
tecihui(tl), hail, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecihuitl-0
tlan(tli), tooth/teeth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlantli
-tlan (locative suffix), by, near, among, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

"In the Hail" (Whittaker, 2021, 69)

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 51 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 112 of 118.

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).