Tecuiton (MH638r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tecuiton ("Little Lord"?) is attested here as a man's name or perhaps a title. The glyph shows a xiuhhuitzolli, the crown-like device worn by rulers (tecuhtli). Perhaps it is meant to appear small ("ton"), but if not, then the diminutive part of the name is not shown visually. The device is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer's left. The device has a tie at the back of the base and a loose hatching or mesh design on the front.
Stephanie Wood
The orthography of this name–with the “i” following the “u”--is not the standard, but it is known. There is a Tetecuitzin who appears in the works of Chimalpahin, for instance. And Thelma Sullivan writes: “El tecutli (también tecuitli, tecuictli) era fundador de una teccalli, casa de mayorazgo, o una pilcalli, casa solariega. Fueron llamados 'Principales' por los españoles." See: Documentos Tlaxcaltecas del siglo XVI en lengua náhuatl (1987), 51.
In the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, there is a verb, tecuitotia from the work of A. Wimmer (2004) and drawing from Sahagún, which means to dance the dance of the lords, so perhaps this glyph refers to someone involved in that dance. If that is the case, then we should have have made -to into -ton.
Stephanie Wood
tecuihto
Tecuiton
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
coronas, xiuhhuitzolli, señores, nobles, diadems, diademas, crowns, lords, teuctli, nombres de hombres
tecuh(tli), lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli
-ton(tli), smallness, little, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tontli
Tecuiton, a name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuiton
Pequeño Señor
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 638r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=358&st=image.
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