Tozcuica (MH523v)

Tozcuica (MH523v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tozcuica (here, attested as a man's name) shows a frontal view of two upright feathers, probably intending the feathers of the yellow parrot (toztli). Below and to the right of these two feathers are three speech scrolls, curling downward and toward the viewer's right. These volutes may indicate the verb cuica (to sing) or the noun cuicatl (song). The full result would be something like "Yellow-Parrot Song."

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The only doubt in this reading of the name is that the gloss gives "q" where the inclination is to have "c." There is another word, tozquitl, which has the "q," and it means throat or voice, or the voice of the person who sings. Tozquitl is a possible phonetic reading for the speech scrolls, and so it may be a phonetic complement.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

andres tozquica

Gloss Normalization: 

Andrés Tozcuica

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)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Gender (male)
Music, Song, Dance
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

feathers, plumas, volutes, volutas, cantar, canción, loro amarillo

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

toz(tli), yellow parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
cuica(tl), song, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicatl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 523v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=126&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: 

toztli (Mdz46r)

Toztli Icuil (MH498v)