Teicniuh (MH660v)

Teicniuh (MH660v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of what may be a compound glyph for the personal name Teicniuh ("Friend of People," attested here as a man's name) shows a serpent (coatl), whose role in this name is elusive. A small head of a man in profile is looking left toward the serpent, and a small line links the two. Only the man’s head offers a semantic clue to the part of the name that refers to a friend (icniuhtli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego.teyc niun.

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego 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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bifurcated
facing left
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
undetermined as yet
Keywords: 

amigos, gente, nombres de hombres

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

teicniuh, everyone’s friend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teicniuh
icniuh(tli), friend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icniuhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Amigo de la Gente

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 660v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=401&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: 

Teicniuh (MH498v)

Teicniuh (MH633v)

Tocniuh (MH661r)