Totecoco (MH777r)

Totecoco (MH777r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Totecoco ("Our Grief") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph consists of a bird's eye view of three alternating footprints going in the direction of the viewer's right. These serve as a phonetic indicator for the middle of the name (-ecoc-). See the Ecoc glyph below. The To- start to the name is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli. We offer an Advanced Search option for "footprints," too.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo totecoco

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Totecoco

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Emotions
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
horizontal
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

huellas, pena, dolor

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

tecoco, grief, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecoco
to-, first person plural possessive, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Nuestro Dolor

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 777r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=628&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: 

Tecocohua (MH515r)

Tecocohua (MH627v)

Ecoc (MH564v)