Tenancatl (MH650v)

Tenancatl (MH650v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Tenancatl ("Someone from Tenanco") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows two interlocking, horizontal stones. The stones have diagonal stripes in their middles and curling ends. The stones are a phonetic indicator for the start (Te-) of the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The visual reduplication of the stones seems unnecessary, unless the gloss should have read Tetenancatl.

Below, we provide a number of other examples of people who are labeled by their origins (using the -catl suffix).

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

toribio tenacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Toribio Tenancatl

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:

noun(s)

reduplication (visual)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as phonogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

diagonal or angled

horizontal

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

striped

Keywords:

piedras, etnicidades, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tenancatl, a person from Tenanco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenancatl
te(tl), stones, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Tenango)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 650v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=383&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 "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: