teizti (FCBk10F33r)

teizti (FCBk10F33r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the noun teizti, offspring. It is a metaphor. Literally, it says "someone's fingernail," as Frances Karttunen points out (see our Online Nahuatl Dictionary). One element of the glyph is a vertical stone (tetl), playing a phonetic role for the start of the word, te-. The stone has the diagnostic diagonal line across the middle and curling ends. A short line arises from the stone to connect to a finger with a prominent fingernail (iztitl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In the contextualizing image, two seated women face a younger woman, called a doncella in Spanish, and probably the daughter of one of them, is walking toward them.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Teizti

Gloss Normalization: 

teizti

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)
Date of Manuscript: 

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
green (light)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

niños, progenie, descendientes, hijos

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

teizti, offspring, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teizti
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
izt(itl), fingernail(s), toenail(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iztitl

Image Source: 

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

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: