Tlahuel (MH829v)

Tlahuel (MH829v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlahuel (“Hello!” or "A Conjuring Expression") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing the viewer’s left. His hair is wild, and he has three lines on his visible cheek. Different from other Tlahuel glyphs, this man is not emitting speech scrolls from his mouth.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The noun tlahuell speaks to rage, fury, and indignation, seemingly provoking the opposite of fine and dignified speech. Huel is an intensifier (like "greatly"), and that ties in with tlahuelli as relating to an intense feeling, although perhaps it was once an intensely positive thing. In contemporary speech, tlahuel seems to be a friendly greeting.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā tlavel

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Tlahuel

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Aging (People, Animals, Things)
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
wrinkles
Keywords: 

saludos, arrugas, cabello desordenado

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

Tlahuel, a name, a greeting, or a conjuring expression, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuel-0
tlahuel(li), anger, rage, fury, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuelli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Hola o Un Conjuro

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 829v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=733&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).

Orthography: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlahuel (MH568r)