Teyahualo (MH508v)

Teyahualo (MH508v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Teyahualo (perhaps, "People are Encircled"), shows three concentric circles, fairly evening spaced, which suggests "something that encircles" (yahualli). From the left, a hand reaches in to grab the middle two circles.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The "grasping hand" (a term coined by Alfonso Lacadena) provides the phonetic complement for the syllable "hua," which suggests possession. The resulting meaning of the name may raise in the imagination a warrior who has the quality of being able to encircle the enemy. See the Online Nahuatl Dictionary, citing Wimmer, for the word teyahualoani, which could support such an interpretation.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juā
teyahualo

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Teyahualo

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
hua (grasping hand)
possessive pronoun
indefinite "te"
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
bird's eye view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

teyahualoani, he who encircles the enemy, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/
yahual(li), something round, e.g., an encircling fence, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yahualli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Que Rodea al Enemigo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 508v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=96&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: 

Tecocohua (MH515r)