Tehuitzil (MH594v)

Tehuitzil (MH594v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tehuitzil (“Stone-Hummingbird,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a stone (tetl) with curling ends and diagonal stripes. Coming up from behind the stone is the head of a hummingbird (huitzilin) with a long beak. It is in a profile view facing toward the viewer's right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

According to Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (Obras Históricas, 1985, 493), Tehuitzil (or Tehuitziltzin, in the referential form) was the name of a servant of Nezahualcoyotl (1402–1472). Apparently it was a name that lived on and was in use outside of Tetzcoco.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juā tevitzil

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Tehuitzil

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
horizontal
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
front to back
Keywords: 

stones, rocks, piedras, hummingbirds, colibríes, chupaflores

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

te(tl), stone, rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
huitzil(in), hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Piedra-Colibrí (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 594v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=268&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tehuitzil (MH634v)