Tlatolehua (MH613v)

Tlatolehua (MH613v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlatolehua ("He is a Witness") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph incorporates the head of the tribute payer in the census. A small line comes from the man's mouth in a way that is suggestive of emerging words (tlatolli). This line connect to a bird's eye view of an animal hide (ehuatl). The hide is splayed and it still contains the animal fur. The hide which provides the phonetic indicator for -ehua, a verb. The combination of tlatol- and -ehua, tlatolehua, is a verb that means "to be a witness."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

atonio tlatoleua

Gloss Normalization:

Antonio Tlatolehua

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

line connecting elements

noun(s)

verb

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Leather, hides

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

bird's eye view

facing right

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

testigos, witnesses, speech, hablar, pieles, skins, hides, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlatolehua, to be a witness, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolehua
tlatol(li), word, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolli
ehua(tl), skin-hide, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehuatl
ehua, to rise and depart, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Testigo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 613v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=309&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:

dropped "h"

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: