Tenton (MH526v)

Tenton (MH526v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tenton (“Little Lips,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a mouth with upper jaw and chin, in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. The word tentli is usually translated as lip or edge. The -ton suffix is a diminutive.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Given that the lip sign is not extra small compared to glyphs of tentli that do not have this diminutive suffix, the visual focus is on the anatomy.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

martin.tentō.

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín Tenton

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: 
diminutive (in gloss/text)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diminutive (visual)
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

mouths, bocas, lips, labios, small, pequeño

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

ten(tli), lip, mouth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
-tontli, diminutive, little, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tontli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 526v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=132&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: 

tentli (Mdz51r)

tentli (Mdz17v)