Tocniuh (MH661r)

Tocniuh (MH661r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tocniuh (“Our Friend”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a hand pointing (perhaps meant to be designating what is “ours,” To-). The hand points to the head of a man, shown in profile looking toward the viewer’s left.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Below are other examples of names that also have the root of “friend.”

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo. tocniuh.

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tocniuh

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: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Gender (male)
Gestures with hands
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

amigos, posesivo, nuestro, nombres de hombres

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

icniuh, friend, companion, laborer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icniuh
to-, first person plural possessive pronoun, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Nuestro Amigo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 661r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=402&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Aoc Tocniuh (MH489v)

Teicniuh (MH633v)

Teicniuh (MH498v)

Teicniuh (MH660v)