tetzon (FC10F32v)
This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the noun tetzon or tentzon ("noble" or "offspring") taken from Book 10, f. 32v of the Florentine Codex. A stone (tetl) provides the phonetic indicator for the start of the term, te-. It is a vertical stone with curling ends and diagonal stripes. Above the stone is a counter that means the number 400 (tzontli). This is also a phonetic indicator for the second part to the term, -tzon.
Stephanie Wood
Beards appear in various personal name glyphs in this database. The two terms, beard (tentzontli) and noble or offspring (tetzontli), are near homophones. Sometimes it is not clear whether a bearded man might really be intended to refer to a noble or a son (male offspring), employing a phonogram. But the text preceding this section in the DFC refers to "tochpotzin" (our noble female offspring), and the compound glyph for tetzon appears in the context of womeh
Stephanie Wood
tetzon:
tetzon
Stephanie Wood
1577
Jeff Haskett-Wood
offspring, familia, hijos, niños, hijas, niñas, jóven, jóvenes, ichpochtli
tetzon, noble, or offspring (like pilli), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetzon
tentzon(tli), a beard, or a noble, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentzontli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
tzon(tli), 400, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
el noble, o el hijo
Stephanie Wood
Florentine Codex, hosted by the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_10615?/sp=40&st=image
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