Teicui (MH632v)

Teicui (MH632v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

The black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teicui (perhaps "Young Girl") shows the head of a girl (teicui) or woman (cihuatl) in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Her mouth is open. Even though this glyph is supposed to convey youth, the head of the woman in the glyph has her hair worn in the style (neaxtlahualli) of an adult woman, twisted so that two points appear on either side of the forehead.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This glyph and name are much like Teicuic ("She Coiled Someone's Hair," see below), which appears to be a conjugation in the preterite of the verb icuiya, with the non-specific human object prefix, te-. So, perhaps the neaxtlahualli hairstyle here conveys a phonetic complement for Teicui.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franca
teicui

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisca Teicui

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 possibilities
Syntax: 
noun(s)
indefinite "te"
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (female)
Hair (human or animal)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

género, viudas, muchachas, jóvenes, cabello, juventud, nombres de mujeres

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

teicui, a young girl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teicui
icuiya, to coil one's hair up, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icuiya
te- (nonspecific human object prefix), everyone, people, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Muchacha

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=347st=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: 

cihuapilli (FCbk1p33)

neaxtlahualli (MH513r)

Teicuic (MH633r)

Teicui (MH896v)

Teicui (MH897r)