Tepenahuacatl (MH733v)

Tepenahuacatl (MH733v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Tepenahuacatl (“Person from Tepenahuac”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows three hills (tepetl) grouped together and, coming up from the hills, four (nahui) thick black lines. This is a phonetic indicator for the -nahuac locative suffix (near). The -catl (affiliation suffix) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is the only use of nahui for nahuac so far in this collection (May 2024). More common are speech scrolls (nahuatl) for the -nahuac or -nahuacatl suffixes. See examples, below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

numbers

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

linear or multiple straight lines

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

cerros, montañas, cerca de, etnicidad, barrios, pueblos,nombres de lugares, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
nahui, four, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahui
nahua, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahua
aca(tl), a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Tepenahuac)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 733v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=545&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 "h"

Historical Contextualizing Image: