Tlaczac (MH814v)

Tlaczac (MH814v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlaczac (“He Ran Quickly”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two alternating footprints heading in the direction of the viewer’s right and slightly upward.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In this collection, footprints have numerous readings. By alternating the footprints, the tlacuilos showed movement. Accordingly, many of the glyphs of footprints represent verbs. Some glyphs of footprints refer to nouns, such as feet or to roads. 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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
phrase or sentence
verb
preterit tense
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
horizontal
Keywords: 

footprints, huellas, correr, verbos, frases, nombres de hombres

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

tlacza, to run, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacza

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Corrió

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 814v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=703&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: 
"ç" for z or tz
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Alacic (MH577v)

choloa (MH533r)

Iyaqui (MH515r)

nemi (MH503v)

Pain (MH519r)

quetza (Mdz30r)

temo (MH487r)

Totococ (MH622r)

yauh (MH515r)

xo (Mdz29r)

otli (Mdz22r)