Tozcatle (MH523r)

Tozcatle (MH523r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tozcatle (perhaps "Hummingbird," attested here as a man's name) shows the head of a man in profile looking toward the viewer's right. At his throat (tozcatl) are wavy lines and speech scrolls, as though pointing to a sound from the throat, which could refer to his voice (tozquitl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The throat of the hummingbird (tozcatle) has especially beautiful feathers, and so the visuals for the human throat and voice may be phonetic complements meant to point the reader to Tozcatle and the name "Hummingbird."

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio tozcatle

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Tozcatle

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
wavy
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

throat, garganta, voice, voz, volutas, volutes, speech scrolls

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

tozca(tl), throat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tozcatl
tozqui(tl), voice, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tozquitl
tozcatle, hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tozcatle

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Colibrí

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 523r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=125&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: 

tlatoa (Mdz6r)

nahuatl (Mdz2v)

cuica (Mdz63r)