Teonolxochitl (MH722r)

Teonolxochitl (MH722r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teonolxochitl is attested here as a woman’s name. It has yet to be analyzed fully. The stone (tetl) provides the phonetic indicator for the start to the name, Te- or perhaps Teo-. The stone is horizontal with a dark diagonal stripe and curling ends. The -onol- element may come from onoltia, which is a reverential form of onoc, to be laid out. Perhaps the flower (xochitl) above the stone is a nochtli (prickly pear cactus flower/fruit), providing the phonetic -no- to the name, but this remains to be seen.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The onoc element is very tentative, but there are examples of onoc in this collection, such as in the two cases (as of July 2024) of Cihuapanonoc, shown below. Could onoc have perhaps a sexual link to women? Then there is the Tlatzalan Tetl Onoc (also below). Finally, the use of a tetl and a nochtli take the name somewhat close to Tenoch, the root of the name of the capital city but also attested as a personal name.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

striped

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

piedras, flores, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
onoltia, reverential of onoc, to lay out, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/onoltia
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
teo(tl), divinity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teotl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 722r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=522&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).

Orthography:

"s" for x

Historical Contextualizing Image: