Tlahuical (MH815v)

Tlahuical (MH815v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlahuical (perhaps “Husband,” “Servant,” or “Someone Taken Somewhere Else”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Below this head are four U-shapes, perhaps a horse’s hoof prints. One of the definitions of tlahuicalli refers to something taken somewhere else. So perhaps the hoof prints–if that is what they are–are referring to that meaning as a semantic complement to the man’s head (which might still be read spouse or servant). It’s difficult to say for certain what the name means.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

For another example of horse hoof prints, please see the glyph for otli (road) from the Tierras collection in the Archivo General de la Nación (below).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

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Syntax: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

criados, pajes, maridos, nombres de hombres

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

tlahuical(li), a husband, a servant, or something taken somewhere else, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuicalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Marido, Criado, o Alguien Llevado a Otro Lugar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 815v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=705&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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