Teteuh (MH879v)

Teteuh (MH879v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Teteuh (perhaps “Stone Dust”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a horizontal stone (tetl) with curling ends and diagonal stripes. Above the stone, swirls of what is apparently dust (teuhtli) arise.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

There is a term that combines with verbs called teteuh-, which is an intensifier, adding a level of strength or potency to the action of the verb. But, here, we do not have a verb. But the name is not necessarily literal, and if not, then it could be fully phonetic.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

gaspar teteuh

Gloss Normalization: 

Gaspar Teteuh

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
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: 
frontal view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

piedras, polvo, nombres de hombres

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
teuh(tli), dust, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teuhtli
teteuh-, an intensifier that attaches to verbs, very much, extremely, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teteuh

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Polvo de Piedras

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 879v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=831&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: 
errors and revisions
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Teuhtli (MH527v)

Yaoteuh (MH797r)