Tochtlacuatl (MH816v)

Tochtlacuatl (MH816v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tochtlacuatl (“Rabbit-Opossum”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a rabbit (tochtli) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Short curving lines near its mouth seem to suggest food (and the verb tlacua, to eat, which seems to be a phonetic indicator that is meant to recall tlacuatl, opossum.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Three glyphs for tlacuatl (opossum) appear below for the purpose of either comparison or clarification. In contemporary Mexican Spanish, the tlacuatl is called a tlacuache.

Added Analysis, 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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

facing right

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

conejos, zarigüeyas, gazapos, tlacuaches, animales, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
tlacua(tl), opossum, a marsupial, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Conejo-Zarigüeya

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 816v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=707&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: