Tlecuauh (MH487r)

Tlecuauh (MH487r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlecuauh (here, attested as a man's name) shows a horizontal, three-dimensional piece of wood (cuahuitl). On top of the board or plank, toward the middle, is a small fire (tletl) with the flames shooting upward.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Literally, this name is Fire-Wood.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego tleguauh

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Tlecuauh

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
rectangular
three-dimensionality
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
outward (from inside out)
Keywords: 

fires, fuegos, flames, flamas, wood, madera, tablas, tablones, troncos, leña

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

tle(tl), flames, fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl.
cuahui(tl), tree, wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl-1.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Leña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 487r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=53&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: 
See Also: 

tletl (Mdz13r)

tletl (Mglb71r)