Temiz (MH493r)

Temiz (MH493r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Temiz (here, attested male) consists of a frontal view of the head of a wild cat or mountain lion (temiztli) and a horizontal stone (tetl). The cat's eyes are open and its face is textured. The stone has curling ends and diagonal lines across it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The tetl in this compound does not have a semantic role but provides a phonetic indication that the name starts with Te-, for Temiztli and not some other animal. But reading the glyph out loud would not require that the stone be read. Wild cats, cougars, mountain lions (called pumas in Spanish) are formidable animals. According to twentieth-century ethnography, a nahualli could take the shape of a cat. See Los cuentos en náhuatl de Doña Luz Jiménez, recop. Fernando Horcasitas and Sarah O. de Ford (México, UNAM, 1979), 32–33.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

angustin temiz

Gloss Normalization: 

Agustín Temiz

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
diagonal or angled
frontal view
horizontal
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

mountain lions, pumas, stones, piedras, wild cats, wildcats

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
miz(tli), wild cat, mountain lion, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miztli
temiz(tli), a wild cat, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/temiztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Puma

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 493r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=65&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: 

Temiz (MH497v)

Temizatl (MH627r)

Temiz (MH668v)