Tole (MH725v)

Tole (MH725v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tole (or Toletl, “Possessor of Tules”) is attested here as a woman’s name. It shows a reed plant on an angle with three leaves and two cattail-like stems.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The gloss adds an absolutive (-tl) ending to the name, but this may be a result of the fact that Tole has a glottal stop at the end (Toleh). Some glyphs featuring tule reeds appear below. In the example of Camatol, the reed appears to include a cattail.

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

tules, posesivo, nombres de mujeres

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

tol(in), tule reeds or rushes, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tolin-1
-e (possessor suffix), her, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/e-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Tiene Tules

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 725v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=529&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: 
dropped "i"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Camatol (MH835r)

Tollan (Mdz8r)

tolin (Mdz38r)

Tolxoch (MH644r)

Tolxoch (MH652v)