Tlechi (MH828v)

Tlechi (MH828v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlechi (perhaps “Started a Fire”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows about six small black pieces of wood or charcoal and about a dozen red flames coming up from them. Fire is tletl, and tlechia is to start a fire.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

jacopo tlechia

Gloss Normalization: 

Jacobo Tlechia

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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

fuego, flamas, leña, carbón, verbos, nombres de hombres

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

tlechia, to start a fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlechia

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Pegó Fuego

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 828v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=731&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: 
"p" for b, u, or v
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlehualan (MH834r)

Tletlepan (MH545v)

tletl (MH503v)