Tepalca (MH527r)

Tepalca (MH527r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or status Tepalca ("One Who Lives in the Home of Another," here, attested as a man’s name) shows a T-shaped structure that resembles the framing of the entryway of a house or building (calli). A person's head in profile, looking toward the viewer's right, is shown next to the T.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

We have a few examples of the adverb Tepal- in this collection and at least two other examples of the name or status, Tepalca. Tepalca appears in the vocabulary of Alonso de Molina without a final "n," so perhaps the "n" that is indicated on the gloss is intrusive.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā .tepalcā

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Tepalca

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: 
adverb
locative (visual not silent)
indefinite "te"
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
right angle(s)
Keywords: 

cerca, nearby, people, gente

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

tepalca, one who lives in the home of another, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepalca
tepal, in relation to another person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepal
-can, locative, place of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2
cal(li), house, building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Que Tiene Alguien Cerca (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 527r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=133&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: 

Tepalca (MH641r)

Tepalca (MH525r)

Tepalnemitl (MH513r)

Tepalnemitl (MH524r)