Toltzetzel (MH661v)

Toltzetzel (MH661v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Toltzetzel (“Scatters Tules”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph includes a frontal view of a tule plant with two cattails and various blades or leaves. Coming out at the base of this plant, toward the viewer, are perhaps three more tule blades. The organization of these blades represents a scattering. This might be considered a visual reduplication to accompany the reduplication in the verb.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo tol tzetzel

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Toltzetzel

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

plants, tules, plantas, nieve, lloviznar, nevar, nombres de hombres

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

tol(in), tules, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tolin-1
toltzetzeloa, to scatter rushes, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toltzetzeloa
tzetzelihui, to sprinkle or snow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzetzelihui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Esparza Tules

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 661v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=403&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: 

tolin (Mdz40r)