Tlahuical (MH799r)

Tlahuical (MH799r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlahuical (perhaps “Husband,” “Servant,” or “Someone Taken Elsewhere”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a house (calli) with its typical rectangular shape and beam-framed entrance. This house seems to be a phonetic indicator for the final syllable of the name (-cal), but perhaps it could be a semantic reference to the place where a husband or a servant might be found.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The multiple definitions of tlahuicalli, put a confident decipherment out of reach. This is true, too, when this glyph is compared with other Tlahuical hieroglyphs (below).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ju^o tlavical

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Tlahuical

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

Keywords:

casas, hogares, esposos, maridos, sirvientes, trasportar a alguien a otro lugar, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlahuical(li), a husband, a servant, or something taken somewhere else, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuicalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(posiblemente, un esposo, un sirviente, o haber llevado a alguien a otro lugar)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 799r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=672&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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