Tlehualan (MH834r)

Tlehualan (MH834r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black and red drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlehualan (perhaps "Very Hot") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph consists of what seem to be two clusters of red flames, leaning toward the viewer's right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

calisto tlevala

Gloss Normalization: 

Calixto Tlehualan

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)
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: 
diagonal or angled
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

fire, fuego, heat, calor, 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 834r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=742&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: 
"s" for x
"v" for u, uh, or hu
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: