Tlachia (MH716r)

Tlachia (MH716r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Tlachia (“He Sees”), is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an eye, a semantic indicator for the verb that is the name. This eye seems to be in a stylistic transition from a frontal view to a profile (facing right), from a starry eye (nearly round) to a European one (with the pupil looking right and a cluster of eyelashes above the pupil).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

An eye is ixtli, but that is not the logogram here. This is a verb. To see was an essential activity for learning and gaining experience and knowledge, as one learns from studying ixmati or imati (see Thouvenot 2010, 178–181). Further, there is a parallel in some expressions between nicmati (I know it) and nitlachia (I see). Look to the parallel sentence in our Dictionary field, below.

Added Analysis, 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
Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Emotions
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

ver, mirar, saber, educarse, tener experiencia, verbos, nombres de hombres

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

tlachia, to look or see, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlachia
ayatemico nicmati, not to feel something, as though one is dreaming it, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatemico-nicmati
ayatemico nitlachia, not to feel something, as though one is dreaming it, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatemico-nitlachia

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Ver o Mirar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 716r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=510&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlamauhcatl (MH741v)

ixtli (MH484v)

Nahualix (MH488r)