Tetzauhtlatoa (MH745v)

Tetzauhtlatoa (MH745v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tetzauhtlatoa (“Speaks Scandalously”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph includes three speech scrolls (for tlatoa, to speak) coming out of the tribute payer’s mouth and curling under. They have two dimensions, reminiscent of smoke curls. To the right of these volutes is a spiraled snake or serpent (coatl). The serpent’s action seems to stand for tzahua, to spin, providing a phonetic value for the start of the name, Tetzauh-, and a semantic value that this speech is the talk of omens or frightening things.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

verb

visible sound

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

volute(s)

circle, circular or rounded

profile view

facing right

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

serpientes, hablar, palabras, espiral, cohuatl

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tetzauhtlatoa, to speak scandalously, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetzauhtlatoa
tzahualiz(tli), the act of spinning (such as yarn or thread), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzahualiztli
tetzahui(tl), a frightening thing, an omen, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetzahuitl
tzahua, to spin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzahua
tzauhqui, a spinner of yarn or thread, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzauhqui
tzahualiz(tli), the act of spinning (such as yarn or thread), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzahualiztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Hablar Escandalosamente

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 745v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=569&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: