Texochimati (MH680r)

Texochimati (MH680r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Texochimati (perhaps “He Knows Medicine”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile view (facing right) of the head of a person who has a stone (tetl) in place of hair. The stone is a phonetic indicator that the name starts with Te-. Three small shapes (not quite volutes) emerge from this person’s mouth, perhaps as a suggestion that, as a speaker, this person is knowledgeable (referring to the verb, mati, to know).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See other examples of Texochimati glyphs, below. The name can be represented with a flower, perhaps a hallucinogenic flower like the matlalin or the poyomahtli.

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Education, Knowledge, Wisdom

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

volute(s)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

conocimiento, conocer, saber, medicina, flores, hablar, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
texochi(tl), a medicinal substance, perhaps with enchanting powers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/texochitl
texochihuiani, someone who enchants others, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/texochihuiani
te- (nonspecific human object prefix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
ma(ti), to know, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mati
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Conocedor de la Medicina

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 680r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=440&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).

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