Texochimati (MH680r)

Texochimati (MH680r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Texochimati (perhaps “He Knows Medicine”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile view (facing right) of the head of a person who has a stone (tetl) in place of hair. The stone is a phonetic indicator that the name starts with Te-. Three small shapes (not quite volutes) emerge from this person’s mouth, perhaps as a suggestion that, as a speaker, this person is knowledgeable (referring to the verb, mati, to know).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See other examples of Texochimati glyphs, below. The name can be represented with a flower, perhaps a hallucinogenic flower like the matlalin or the poyomahtli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

conocimiento, conocer, saber, medicina, flores, hablar, nombres de hombres

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
texochi(tl), a medicinal substance, perhaps with enchanting powers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/texochitl
texochihuiani, someone who enchants others, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/texochihuiani
te- (nonspecific human object prefix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
ma(ti), to know, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mati
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Conocedor de la Medicina

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 680r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=440&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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