Tozquihua (MH634r)

Tozquihua (MH634r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tozquihua ("One With a Beautiful Voice") is attested here as a man's name. The two elements are a bird (apparently the toztli), and a feather, likely also from this same bird, as an added semantic indicator, perhaps because this bird was not only prized for its song but also for its feathers.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

voz, cantar, música, pájaros, plumas, nombres de hombres

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

toz(tli), yellow headed parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
tozquihua, someone with a voice, also the name of a famous lord of Chalco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tozquihua
-hua, possession, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Alguien Con una Voz

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 634r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=350&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).

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