Tecuecuenotl (MH671v)

Tecuecuenotl (MH671v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tencuecuenotl (“Foul-Mouthed Person”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile of a face (facing right) with four emerging speech scrolls. These have a semantic value, as they refer to the bad language of a tencuecuenotl. The profile has no eyes; the focus is on the mouth (tentli), which is the start to the name Tencuecuenotl.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

If there is an intrusive “n” in the gloss, then this name may be Tecuecuenotl, which was a name held by a person who was alive at the time of the Spanish invasion and later made it into the history books. The person here, with this name, may be named for that more famous figure.

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

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

volute(s)

Keywords:

lenguaje, mal hablado, malas palabras, nombres de personas famosas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tencuecueno(tl), a foul-mouthed person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tencuecuenotl
Tecuecuenotl, a personal name, of a “prince” alive at the time of the Spanish seizure of power, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Tecuecuenotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Mal Hablado

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 671v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=423&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: