Tlaixtoc (MH813r)

Tlaixtoc (MH813r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlaixtoc is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a human eye (ixtli). The verb may be ixtoca, to covet, with the added indefinite prefix (tla-), which might mean to covet something. This does involve seeing something and wanting it, so in that case it might be a simplex logogram.

Description, 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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
verb
preterit tense
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

ojos, ver, codiciar, nombres de hombres

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

ixtoca, to claim, or covet and obtain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtoca
tla- (indefinite prefix), something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tla

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Lo Codició

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 813r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=700&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: 

Ixtococ (MH485v)