Tecocohua (MH650v)

Tecocohua (MH650v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecocohua ("Someone Ill" or "Someone in Pain") shows a human head in profile, facing the viewer's right. This may refer to the Te- ("someone") start to the name. The stone in the lower left of the glyph can also provide the phonetic Te- start to the name. This compound does not include a visual for the "hua" possessive, so perhaps the spelling of this name should be Tecocoa ("Someone Who Causes People Pain").

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Other examples of Tecocohua sometimes show pain, which seem to support the reading that this name refers to a person in pain or not well. But sometimes the reading seems as though it should refer to causing someone/people pain (with a root of tecoco or cocoa).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

barthasal tecocohua

Gloss Normalization: 

Baltazar Tecocohua

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
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
profile view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

caras, piedras, famous names, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres, Tecocoa

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

Tecocohua, someone who is ill or in pain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecocohua
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
cocoa, to be sick or in pain or cause pain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(nombre de una persona famosa de Cuauhtitlan)

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: 
"l" for r
"s" for z
"th" for t, d, or gd
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tecocohua (MH663v)