Tlallaneuh (MH791v)

Tlallaneuh (MH791v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlallaneuh (perhaps "Has Borrowed Land") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a bird's eye view of a parcel of seeded agricultural land (tlalli) and a frontal view of a large hand (maitl) in front of the land. The hand could suggest something about the land being borrowed or rented, not owned.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

anto tlallāneuh

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Tlallaneuh

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: 
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Land Parcels, Use, Issues
Landscape Features
Markets, Commerce, Economy
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
dotted, granular, textured
bird's eye view
rectangular
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres, mano, tierras, prestadas, préstamo, agricultura, sementeras

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

tlallaneuh, to have borrowed land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlallaneuh

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 791v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=657&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: 
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: