Teicui (MH632v)

Teicui (MH632v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

The black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teicui (perhaps "Young Girl") shows the head of a girl (teicui) or woman (cihuatl) in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Her mouth is open. Her hair is worn in the style (neaxtlahualli) of a woman, twisted so that two points appear on either side of the forehead.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This glyph and name are much like Teicuic (see below), which appears to be a conjugation in the preterite of the verb icuiya, with the non-specific human object prefix, te-.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franca>/sup>
teicui

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisca Teicui

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: 
noun(s)
indefinite "te"
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (female)
Hair (human or animal)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

pelo, cabello, peinadas, nombres de mujeres, viudas

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

teicui, a young girl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teicui
icuiya, to coil one's hair up, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icuiya
te- (nonspecific human object prefix), everyone, people, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Enrollar el Cabello de Todas las Mujeres

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=347st=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: 

cihuapilli (FCbk1p33)

neaxtlahualli (MH513r)

Teicuic (MH633r)