Tepalnemitl (MH524r)

Tepalnemitl (MH524r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tepalnemitl ("He Goes Around with Others," attested here as a man's name) shows a bird's eye view of four footprints going different directions. The verb nemi (to go around) comes to mind, although the gloss shows it with the absolutive (-tl) suffix, as though it has become a noun.
is a noun that means "resident"; perhaps nemitl refers to someone who walks or goes about. The other part of the name, Tepal-, means in relation to another person.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This name may intend something like "someone who goes around others" or "with others," perhaps a gregarious person or else someone who avoids other people--?

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pe^o tepalnemitl

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tepalnemitl

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

indefinite "te"

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Footprint(s), human

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Transportation, Travel, Roads

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

Keywords:

walking, caminando, huella, huellas, footprint, footprints

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepal nemi, one who lives with someone else, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepal-nemi
tepal, in relation to another person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepal
nemi, to go along, to go around, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemi
nemini, a resident, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemini

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 523r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=125&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).

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