Tlemoyotl (MH886r)

Tlemoyotl (MH886r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlemoyotl (“Spark” or “Ember”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a cluster of vertical lines with a slight curve apparently meant to represent flames of a fire (tletl). Above the flames is a bird, but perhaps it is there to recall a mosquito (moyotl), providing a phonetic indicator for tlemoyotl (a spark or ember).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Four examples of the name Moyotl (literally, “Mosquito”) appear below. It is clear these are not any kind of bird, although perhaps there is a similar bird name that has not yet been located in the research for this name, Tlemoyotl.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

martin tlemoyotl

Gloss Normalization:

Martín Tlemoyotl

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

phonetic dimensions

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Insects & Bugs

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:

facing right

profile view

wavy

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

mosquitos, insectos, fuegos, flamas, brazas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlemoyo(tl), spark or ember, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlemoyotl
tle(tl), fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
moyo(tl), mosquito, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/moyotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Centella o Braza

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 886r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=844&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: