Tecuacua (MH520r)

Tecuacua (MH520r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name (Calixto) Tecuacua ("Rough, "Course") shows two stones (tetl) in front of the mouth of a man. The implication is that he is about to bite (cua) or chew (tecuacua) the stones. But the term tecuacua also means rough or coarse.

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. The glyph is fully phonographic, and tecuacua my be a trisyllabogram, since the semantic impression of eating stones is not the actual meaning of the name.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

galisto teguagua

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Calixto Tecuacua

Gloss/Text 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

Grammar & Linguistics:

noun(s)

indefinite "te"

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

syllables/three: tecuacua (from tecuacua, rough)

verb

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

nombres de hombres, fonetismo, men's names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecuacua, rough, course; or, to chew, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuacua
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: