Tequetzon (MH506v)

Tequetzon (MH506v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tequetzon consists of two prominent elements. One is a stone (tetl), which provides the phonetic indicator of the start of the name. The stone has the usual curly ends and diagonal stripes. The second visual element is a hank of hair (tzontli). The hair hangs downward from the stone, curling a bit at the ends. This suggests quetzontli (long hair down the back of the neck).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The name Tequetzon may be short for tequetzoma, which may be a verb meaning "to bite." The Gran Diccionario Náhuatl gives tequetzomaliztli, translated by Alonso de Molina as "adentelladura." This could suggest a translation of "Biter" for Tequetzon. But the visuals let on none of this meaning, meaning the compound is fully phonographic.

The use of stone for the Te- start to the name is possibly echoed in the use of mouth/lip (tentli] for a similar phonetic start to a name, Te- or Ten-. See two examples below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

andres
teguetzon

Gloss Normalization:

Andrés Tequetzon

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

phonetic dimensions

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

diagonal or angled

facing left

profile view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

striped

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

stones, rocks, piedras, hair, cabello, pelos, muerde, mordeduras, bites

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
tzon(tli), hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
quetzon(tli), long hair on the neck, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzontli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 506v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=92&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: