Temayahui (MH543r)

Temayahui (MH543r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name Temayahui ("He Hurls Stones," attested here as a man's name) shows frontal view of a human hand (maitl) holding a stone (tetl), perhaps poised to hurl (temayahui). The stone has some diagonal lines and curling edges, but it is not a perfectly standard stone glyph. The hand is a left hand, and the thumb is toward the front.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

If the real meaning is to throw people down, such as the enemy on the battle field, then both the Te- and the -ma- are phonetic indicators, resulting in a fully phonographic compound.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pe^o temayahui

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Temayahui

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

indefinite "te"

verb

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

diagonal or angled

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

stones, rocks, piedras, lanzar, hurl, throw

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
te, impersonal human object, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
mayahui, to hurl down, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mayahui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Lanza Piedras

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 543r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=165&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).

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