Tzonpi (MH498r)

Tzonpi (MH498r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tzonpi ("Hair Puller") shows two small thorns with their points going downward. These are small pointed things (pintic), and so they must serve as a phonogram for the verb to pull hair (pi) plus hair (tzontli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco
tzanpin (or tzonpin?)

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Tzonpi

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Hair pulling
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
pointed (see also spiky)
triangular
Keywords: 

pelo, arrancar

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

pi, to pull out hair or grasses, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pi
tzon(tli), clump of hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli-1
pintic, small and pointed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pintic

Whittaker's Transliteration: 

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=75&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 "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tzonpi (MH497r)