Tohuahuan (MH485r)

Tohuahuan (MH485r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph of the personal name Tohuahuan shows a bird's head turned upright with its mouth open, as though making a sound. It has short spiky feathers on its head and straight feathers going down its neck.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The man bearing this name has the baptismal name Felipe. It is still under investigation just which bird he appears to be named after. Marc Thouvenot {"Langue nahuatl et écriture traditionnelle," p. 12] suggests that the to- is a plural, first person, possessive prefix. It is not yet apparently that this is relevant, but the IDIEZ group notes that tohuatl, is an "appelative of endearment for [a] young relative."

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

filipe tohuahuā

Gloss Normalization: 

Felipe Tohuahuan

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Mouth/Beak Open
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing upward
profile view
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

birds, pájaros, feathers, plumas

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

to-, first-person plural possessive, our, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783
tohua(tl), affectionate term for a young relative, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tohuatl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 485r, 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).

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