Tocentlayecol (MH833v)

Tocentlayecol (MH833v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tocentlayecol (perhaps "The Conclusion of Our Project") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a dried cob of corn (cintli, which is also spelled centli), unwrapped, but with the silk still at the top. This one element seems to provide the phonetic indication for the entire name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The cintli (or centli) is nearly always unwrapped compared to the xilotl (the fresh ear of corn), which can be unwrapped or not.

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

simplex or element as phonogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

War or Conflict

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

segmented

Keywords:

maíz, posesivo, proyecto, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cin(tli), dried ears of maize or corn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cintli
cen-, entirely, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cen-0
to-, first person plural possessive, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783
tlayecoliztli, the conclusion of a project, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlayecoliztli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 833r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=741&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: