Tochcuahuitl (MH495v)

Tochcuahuitl (MH495v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tochcuahuitl (“Rabbit-Horns,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of a rabbit, looking toward the viewer's left. His coat is textured. He has one horn (cuacuahuitl)] coming out of the top of his head, seemingly a phonetic indicator of the type of rabbit (or better, animal) that this is, given that rabbits do not have horns. The horn is more like that of a unicorn, which may suggest European influence in the way it has been drawn.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

goçalo
tochguavitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Gonzalo Tochcuahuitl

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)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
emphasis/exaggeration (relative, intentional)
facing left
profile view
pointed (see also spiky)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
upward
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

animales, cuernos

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

toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
cuacuahue, a horned animal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuacuahue
cuahui(tl), wood, tree, stick, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl-1

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&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: 
See Also: 

Tochcuacuauh (MH508r)