Tochtlacua (MH623v)

Tochtlacua (MH623v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tochtlacua (perhaps "Rabbit Eating") is attested here as a man's name. It shows the head of a rabbit (tochtli) in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Its coat is textures, its ears are upright, its eye is open, and short lines appear in front of its mouth, apparently drawing attention to the act of eating (tlacua).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

visible movement

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

dotted, granular, textured

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

animales, conejos, comida, comer, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
tlacua, to eat something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Conejo Come

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 623v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=328&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: