teichpoch (FCBk10F32v)

teichpoch (FCBk10F32v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black and white drawing of the compound glyph for the noun teichpoch. It consists of a vertical stone (tetl), which provides the phonetic start to the term (te-). The head of a young woman (although she has the adult woman's hairstyle, the neaxtlahualli, or axtlacuilli) is shown in profile above the stone, intending to add the logogram of -ichpoch to the term.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

teichpuch

Gloss Normalization:

teichpoch

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Children, Childhood, Adolescence

Family, Kinship, even Friendship

Gender (female)

Sexuality, Fertility

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

green (dark)

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

teichpoch, a maiden, literally, "a maiden of the people," https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teichpoch
ichpoch(tli), adolescent girl, young woman, virgin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ichpochtli
-poch, a word element that means "young", https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poch

Image Source:

Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_10615?/sp=40&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

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Orthography:

"u" for o

Historical Contextualizing Image: