Tecuhchol (MH640v)

Tecuhchol (MH640v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecuhchol ("Lord-Runs Away," attested here as a man's name), shows the xiuhhuitzolli (diadem) in profile, facing toward the viewer's left. It is what would be worn by a lord (tecuhtli). The diadem has hatching or a mesh design on the main part of the crown-like device. It also has a a point at the top and a tie at the bottom-back. Below the diadem are two upward footprints in a bird's eye view, suggesting motion over the landscape, and in this case they represent an abbreviation ("chol") for the verb choloa, to flee.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The start of this name, as glossed, is "Teuhc-." The two best known orthographies for lord are teuctli and tecuhtli. Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart prefer the former, but the latter is closest Alonso de Molina's interpretation.

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

teuhcchol

Gloss Normalization:

Tecuhchol

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)

verb

visible movement

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Footprint(s), human

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

tied, bound, or bundled

triangular

crenelated

checked, cross-hatched, or mesh

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

diademas, señores, diadems, lords, crowns, footprints, huellas, huir, correr, brincar, teuctli, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecuh(tli), lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli
choloa, to run away, flee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/choloa

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 640v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=363&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: