Tehua (MH832r)

Tehua (MH832r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tehua ("Possessor of Stones" or perhaps "With People") is attested here as a man's name. It shows four black circular objects. While they could be stones (tetl), this is not the customary way of painting stones. The same could be said of beans (etl). The -hua possessor suffix is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

An alternative reading of the gloss could be Tehuan, where the final "n" has dropped away, as often happens. If so, the translation of the name would be "With Someone" or "With People." But just how the glyph conveys this meaning is difficult to determine.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio teva

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Tehua (or perhaps Tehuan)

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: 
phonetic dimensions
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
Keywords: 

piedras, frijoles, posesión, nombres de hombres

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

tehuan, in the company of someone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tehuan
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
-hua, possessor of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 832r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=738&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: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tehuan (MH490v)

Tehuan (MH595v)