Tlahuilan (MH746r)

Tlahuilan (MH746r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlahuilan (“One Who Drags Wood”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a hand grasping a twisted horizontal rope with a frayed end on the left. The end on the right loops through a hole in a plank of wood, so that it can be dragged (referring to the verb, tlahuilana, to drag lumber).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The dragging of beams for use in construction is also mentioned in the Spanish-language text in Book 11, folio 110v, of the Digital Florentine Codex.

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

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Rope, cord, string

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Keywords:

jalar, arrastrar, madera, cordón, manos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlahuilana, to drag lumber, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuilana
tlahuilanal(li), something dragged along, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuilanalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Que Arrastra Madera

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 746r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=570&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: