Tlamelauh (MH521v)

Tlamelauh (MH521v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlamelauh (here, attested as male) shows a horizontal rectangle (with a slight tilt). The implication may be that this is a person who will "go straight" (tlamelahua) or is straight, right, correct.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo tlamelauh

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tlamelauh

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood and José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
rectangular
Keywords: 

straight, derecho

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

tlamelahua, to go straight, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamelahua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Que Va Derecho(?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=122&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: