Tzinitztic (MH900v)

Tzinitztic (MH900v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tzinitztic (perhaps “Cold Bottom” or “Bottom Looking”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a partial male body with a tiny waist and a focus on the rear end (tzintli). This partial person is sitting on a horizontal obsidian blade (itztli). The belt of a loincloth is the indication that this body is male. The -tic suffix is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The fuller suffix, -itztic, can mean cold. If this is the intention of the name, then the obsidian blade is serving as a phonetic indicator. Another possible interpretation is that the -itztic suffix comes from the verb itztica, to be looking. Either way, however, the itztli serves as a phonetic indicator.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

martin tzinitztic

Gloss Normalization:

Martín Tzinitztic

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

adjective

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Sensory Perception

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

horizontal

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

traseros, cuerpos, obsidiana, ver, observar, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tzin(tli), bottom, rear end, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/t
itztic, cold, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztic

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Trasero Frío o Observando Traseros

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 900v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=873&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: