Tecuacua (MH520r)

Tecuacua (MH520r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name (Calixto) Tecuacua ("He Bites People" a lot?) shows two stones (tetl) in front of the mouth of a man. The implication is that he is about to bite (cua) the stones.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The verb is reduplicated in the gloss, and the appearance of two stones may be meant capture the reduplication visually. It is unlikely that the translation would be about biting stones, but more likely to have the phonetic value for the indefinite "te" pronoun. But further attention to this name is warranted.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

galisto teguagua

Gloss Normalization: 

Calixto Tecuacua

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: 
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
indefinite "te"
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

te- (nonspecific human object prefix), people, everyone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
tecuani, ferocious wild animal, literally one that bites people, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuani
cua, to eat or to bite, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 520r, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=119&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: 
"g" for c, q, or x
"s" for x
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cuacual (MH613v)

Cencual (MH535v)

Tecuacua (MH520r)

Cencual (MH658r)