Teicniuh (MH633v)

Teicniuh (MH633v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Teicniuh ("Friend of Everyone") shows a stone (providing the phonetic dimension for the start of the name, Te-) and an anonymous man's face in brief profile, facing right. The left end of the stone has curling ends; it also seems to have dark and light alternating stripes, and it is horizontal.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Differing from this hieroglyph for "everyone's friend" is another example that uses "friend" as a root, but speaks sadly of the person as no longer being a friend.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

martin
teicniuh

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín Teicniuh

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)
indefinite "te"
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
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: 
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

stones, piedras, heads, cabezas, friends, amigos

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

teicniuh, a friend of everyone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teicniuh

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Amigo de Todos

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 633v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=349st=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: 

Teicniuh (MH498v)

Aoc Tocniuh (MH489v)

Teicniuh (MH660v)

Tocniuh (MH661r)