Tlatolmahui (MH619r)

Tlatolmahui (MH619r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlatolmahui (perhaps "Frightening Words") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a dark face in profile, facing right, and with four speech scrolls emerging from the mouth.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

mateu tlatolmavi

Gloss Normalization:

Mateo Tlatolmahui

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:

noun(s)

visible sound

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Emotions

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

speech, hablar, palabras, fuertes, causando miedo, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlatol(li), words, speech, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolli
mahui, to frighten, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mahui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Palabras Aterradoras

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 619r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=320&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:

"u" for o

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: