Tehuan (MH595v)

Tehuan (MH595v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tehuan (“With Another," or "In The Company of Someone," attested here as a man’s name) shows a stone (tetl) in a gourd bowl (huahcalli). The bowl has a round bottom, and a single line below the lip that seems to run all the way around the bowl.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Both elements in this compound serve here as phonetic indicators. The stone provides the "Te-" indefinite pronoun. The bowl provides the "-hua-" syllable of possession. The gloss adds an "n" at the end, which may be intrusive. Another possibility it that the name is "Tehua," a possessor of stones.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

p.o tevan

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tehuan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
indefinite "te"
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
striped
circle, circular or rounded
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

stones, piedras, bowls, containers, tazón, recipiente, hold, vasija, emparejado, asociado

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
huahcal(li), a gourd bowl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huahcalli
te-, nonspecific human object prefix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
-hua, singular possessive suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
tehuan, with another person or persons, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tehuan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Tiene Alguien, o Con Alguien

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 595v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=270&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
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Nehuan (MH536r)

Tehuan (MH490v)

Tehuaqui (MH651v)

Tehua (MH832r)