Tencuauh (MH510r)

Tencuauh (MH510r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tencuauh (here, attested as a man's name) has two prominent elements. One is a human face in profile looking toward the viewer's left. Attached to the lip (tentli) of this face is a tree (cuahuitl) trunk with two parts. It is worth noting when trying to translate this name, ten- can mean edge, and cuahuitl can mean woods.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

There is a place name, Tecuauhtitlan, that has been translated as the "bosque del pedregal" (woods of the lava field). [See: Geografía mexicana.] This could mean that the "Ten-" of Tencuauh is meant as a rebus for Te- (stone). But this is a personal name and not a landscape description.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

calixto
tenguauh

Gloss Normalization: 

Calixto Tencuauh

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
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
profile view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Keywords: 

labios, árboles, trees, lips, nombres de hombres

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

ten(tli), lip-mouth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
cuahui(tl), wood-tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl-1

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 510r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=99&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: 

Cuahuitl (MH513r)

Cuauhxoxoc (MH490r)

cuauhxinqui (Mdz70r)