Tecocohua (MH623v)

Tecocohua (MH623v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph that stands for the personal name Tecocohua (also seen as Tecocoa, Tecocoatl, and Tecocohuatl), which means perhaps "Someone Ill" or "Someone in Pain" It shows a lord (tecuhtli) sitting on a stool and facing toward the viewer's right. The lord provides a phonetic indicator for the start of the name Teco-.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Diego
tecova

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Tecocoa

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

indefinite "te"

Writing Features:

simplex or element as phonogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Death, decay, decomposition

Emotions

Gender (male)

Health, Medicine

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Sensory Perception

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

hombres nobles, elemento fonético, dolores, sufrimiento, Tecocohua and Tecocohuatl variants

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecuh(tli), a lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli
te- (nonspecific human object prefix), someone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
tecoco, something causing grief, pain, ill feelings, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecoco
Tecocoa, a person's name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecocoa
cocoa, to be in pain or cause someone pain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocoa
Tecocoatl, the name of a famous person of Cuauhtitlan at the time of the Spanish invasion, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecocoatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Que Sufre Dolores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 623v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=328st=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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: