Teixconehui (MH811v)

Teixconehui (MH811v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Teixconehui (perhaps “He Is Out of Control” or "He Confronts People") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. A small foot with part of a leg also appears in such a way as to block our view of the person’s eye and ear. How the foot enters into the meaning of teixconehui is unclear, unless it is a close homophone for the -ixco- part of the verb.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This glyph is very much like the glyph for Teixconemi (perhaps "Rude and Distrespectful"), which is found in the same manuscript but on folio 815 recto. The verb teixconehui does not appear in the early dictionaries, only teixconehua and ixconehua (see our dictionary entry here), so the translation may require adjustment.

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:

homophony, rebus

personal name

Syntax:

verb

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Personality, Behavior

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

comportamiento, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

teixconehua, to get out of control, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teixconehua
ixconehua, to dare or confront someone, right in their face, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixconehua
icxi(tl), foot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icxitl
tēīxco tēicpac ninemi, to be rude and disrespectful, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teixco-teicpac-ninemi

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Fuera de Control

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 811v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=697&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:

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: