Tehuitzco (Mdz24v)

Tehuitzco (Mdz24v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tehuitzco contains two principal elements that are merged. The characteristics of stones (tetl) cover some mountains that are shaped like thorns or spines (huitztli). The locative suffix (-co) is not shown visually. The stones have curly outcroppings and the alternating purple and terracotta wavy lines are typical of the glyphs for stones.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The mountains or hills are not a phonetic part of the place name, but their shape serves as a container for the stone-thorns and as a silent locative, a "semantic complement," as Gordon Whittaker would put it, included so often in the shape of a tepetl). Perhaps the locale is hilly or mountainous.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tehuizco

Gloss Normalization:

Tehuitzco (in the modern state of Morelos)

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

pointed (see also spiky)

spiky

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

-co locative, stones, piedras, thorns, espinas, mountains, hills, cerros, montañas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone or rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
huitz(tli), thorn or spine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 24 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 59 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).