tlatoa (MH483r)

tlatoa (MH483r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for the verb to speak (tlatoa) (or tlahtoa, with the glottal stop) has been carved from the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtlatoa ("Eagle-Speaks"). The element is a set of teeth, connected to the eagle head in the original glyph with black lines. Four upper and four lower teeth are shown in a profile view, facing the viewer's right. Gums surround the set of teeth. The teeth are slightly parted.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tlatoa is usually shown with speech scrolls (volutes) or curling lines emerging from a mouth. See examples below.

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

language, lenguaje, hablar, to speak, speech, discurso

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

tlatoa, to speak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatoa-0

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&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)

tlatoa (Mdz19r)

tlatoa (MH485r)

Xochitlatoa (MH506r)

tlatoa (MH523v)

tlatoa (MH577v)