Tlehualan (MH597r)

Tlehualan (MH597r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlehualan (perhaps “Very Hot”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a horizontal bar with five flames arising from it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Fire provides a semantic reading of the verb tlehualani, to be very hot.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio tlevallan

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Tlehualan

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: 
phrase or sentence
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 & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
Keywords: 

fuego, caliente, nombres de hombres

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

tlehualani, to be very hot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlehualani
tle(tl), fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Muy Caliente

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 597r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=273&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: 
"ll" for l
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlehualan (MH834r)