Totote (MH812v)

Totote (MH812v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Totote (“Bird Possessor”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the textured head of a bird (tototl) in profile, facing right. Below this is a frontal view of a stone (tetl), with its curling ends and diagonal line across the middle. The stone is a phonetic indicator for the -te ending to the name, which includes the -e possessive.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See below for another example of the -e possessive suffix, and an example where tetl has been used to approximate the ending of the name Gante. An alternative interpretation for Totote is that is is meant to approximate Tototetl, Bird's Egg.

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)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
striped
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
diagonal or angled
dotted, granular, textured
profile view
frontal view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

pájaros, piedras, posesivos, nombres de hombres

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

toto(tl), bird and a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tototl
-e (possession), one who has that thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/e-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Poseedor de Pájaro(s)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 812v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=699&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: 
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

de Gante (MH855r)

Tototetl (MH677r)