Tlecuilhua (MH730r)

Tlecuilhua (MH730r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Tlecuilhua (“He Who Has a Home” or “He Who Has a Fireplace”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows seven rising flames, which point to the word tletl (fire). Behind or surrounding the fire is a rectangular enclosure, such as a fireplace (tlecuilli). The possessive -hua is not shown visually here, unless there is an excessive number of curling flames that some might be interpreted as nahuatl (language), which has been found to provide the “hua” syllable in other glyphs.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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)

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

front to back

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

flamas, fuego, fogones, fogón, hogar, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlecuil(li), home or hearth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlecuilli
tle(tl), fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
-hua (possession), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua-0
tlecuil(itl), fire pit, hearth, oven, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlecuilitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Que Tiene Hogar, o Él Que Tiene un Fogón

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 730r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=538&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).

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