Tehel (MH784v)

Tehel (MH784v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tehel ("Brave") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a part of a human face intended to feature lips (tentli), which is a phonetic indicator here for the start of the name "Te-". The face is turned toward the viewer's right. To the right of the face is a frontal view of a heart (yolotl) with a horizontal band in the middle, two curling shapes and a pointed protrusion at the top. The heart, being an internal organ (elli) provides the second phonetic syllable of the name, -hel. The result is a fully phonographic compound.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po thehel

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tehel

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephane Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Emotions
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Personality, Behavior
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
rectangular
striped
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres, corazón, órganos, labios, fonetismo

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tehel, brave, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tehel
el(li), internal organ, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/elli
yollo(tl), heart, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yollotl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 784v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=643&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).

Orthography: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

yollotl (Mdz16v)

teltapach (Mdz10v)