Tetolini (MH712v)

Tetolini (MH712v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Tetolini ("He Troubles People") doubles as the noun for something that causes affliction or injury (as Frances Karttunen defines it--see the dictionary link).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The noun comes from tolinia, which can be--in the transitive--to cause injury, but in the reflexive, it can mean to be poor. So, perhaps a tetolini could be someone in poverty. For a range of definitions, see the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl.

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, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Hair pulling
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tetolini, something troubling, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetolini
tolinia, to afflict or be afflicted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tolinia

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 712v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=503&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: 
"ll" for l
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tetolini (MH485r)

Motolinia (MH501v)