Texicui (MH496r)

Texicui (MH496r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Texicui (here, attested as a man's name) shows a horizontal stone (tetl) with curling ends and dark and light alternating, diagonal stripes. The rest of the name is not obviously shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a personal Nahua name, preceded in the gloss by a Christian first name (Toribio). He may have been named after Toribio de Benavente, also known as Motolinia ("One Who is Poor or Afflicted"). This was the first word he learned in Nahuatl, and he went on to learn the language well. He lived in the monastery in Huejotzingo. Doing a quick search for the name "Toribio" will produce an impressive result.

The Nahua glyph may have something to do with carving stones, or taking carved stones. Alternately, the Te- may be the nonspecific human object prefix and have nothing to do with stones at all, and if so, the stone is there as a phonetic indicator. (The glyph remains to be deciphered further.)

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

doribio
texicui

Gloss Normalization: 

Toribio Texicui

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
indefinite "te"
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Christian)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
striped
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
diagonal or angled
curving, curvy, curved
checked, cross-hatched, or mesh
horizontal
Keywords: 

stones, piedras, nombres de hombres

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
xima, cut, shave, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xima
cui, to take, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cui
te, nonspecific human object prefix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 496r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=71&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: 
"d" for t
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tetl (Mdz18r)

tetl (MH483r)