tetzon (FC10F32v)

tetzon (FC10F32v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the noun tetzon ("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.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tetzon:

Gloss Normalization: 

tetzon

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)
Date of Manuscript: 

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
homophony, rebus
numbers
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Hair (human or animal)
Numbers, Math
Plants, Flora
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
striped
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

offspring, familia, hijos, niños, hijas, niñas

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

tetzon, noble, or offspring (like pilli), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetzon
tentzon(tli), beard, 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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el noble, o el hijo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Florentine Codex, hosted by the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_10615?/sp=40&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cuauhtetzon (MH897v)

Tocentetzon (MH882v)