Tlatolzazaca (Verg6v)

Tlatolzazaca (Verg6v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlatolzazaca (or Tlahtolzazaca, with the glottal stop) (“He Gossips,” attested here as a man’s name) shows two front teeth (tlantli) and five speech scrolls opposite of a mouth (in profile, facing left). Three of the speech scrolls appear to represent "words" (tlatolli or tlahtolli) and two are made of hay or straw (zacatl). The latter are spiny. They all curl at the ends; the upper three curl downwards and the lower two curl upwards.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The tlantli (teeth) represent a phonetic indicator for the sound at the start of the name, "Tla-." The longer, compound word tlatolzazaca actually refers to the verb "to gossip." The part of the name relating to hay or straw (zacatl) is reduplicated both visually and in the gloss.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

vicete. tlatolçaçaca

Gloss Normalization:

Vicente Tlahtolzazaca

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Vergara, Codex (Verg)

Date of Manuscript:

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

indefinite "tla"

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

verb

visible sound

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

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

volute(s)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

right to left

Keywords:

volutas, dientes, labios

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlatolzazaca, to gossip, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolzazaca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Chismea

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Codex Vergara, folio 6v, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f20.item

Image Source, Rights:

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Historical Contextualizing Image: