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 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. The dots on the land may suggest soil or that the land is seeded. The rectangle suggests a plot or parcel.

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: 
rectangular
vertical, upright
diagonal or angled
dotted, granular, textured
bird's eye view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
back to front
Keywords: 

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

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: