Tlazal (MH901r)

Tlazal (MH901r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlazal (perhaps “Something Laid Out” or “Thrown Down”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows half of a man’s body, laid out, horizontal. His arms are slightly bent at the elbows, and the forearms are reaching outward a bit. He may be the object that has been put into a reclining position.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While tlazalli is a noun that refers to a string thrown to catch birds, perhaps it occasionally referred to other things that were thrown down, again drawing a noun from the verb tlaza, to hurl or throw down. See other examples of two apparently related glyphs, below. The third one (MH668r) draws from another root, relating to the act of gluing things.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juo. tlaçal tlaxiqui

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Tlazal, tlaxinqui

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: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Body postures
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing upward
horizontal
Keywords: 

poner, dejar, tirar, nombres de hombres

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

tlaza, to throw down, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaza
tlazal(li), a string thrown to catch birds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlazalli
tlazaliz(tli), the act of putting or laying something down, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlazaliztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Algo Tirado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 901r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=874&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
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlazaloc (MH619v)

Tlazal (MH665v)

Tlazalo (MH668r)