Teuhquiyauh (MH666v)

Teuhquiyauh (MH666v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teuhquiyauh (perhaps “Dusty Rain”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of three short signs for rain (quiyahuitl)–triangles with their points down and a line of current running through the middle, seemingly to suggest movement. At the tip of the middle stream is a droplet with a dot in the middle, like a bead. To the left and to the right of these bits of streaming rain are squiggly lines that must intend to illustrate dust (teuhtli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Perhaps this name points to a type of rain that causes dust to rise up into the air.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

lluvia, polvo, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Lluvia Polvorienta

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 666v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=413&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).

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