acaxochitl (Mdz31r)

acaxochitl (Mdz31r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph stands for the place name Acaxochitlan. It is a large red flower, an aquatic plant from the lobelia family. It has a green stem and a small green element at the top of the flower. It has five petals, grouped in two petals on the right and three petals on the left.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Another acaxochitl flower that appears in a compound glyph on folio 30 recto has its five petals grouped just the opposite way this one is shown. See the attestations in this record for making comparisons.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Keywords:

flowers, lobelias, tuberous plants

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

acaxochi(tl), tuberous flower in the lobelia family, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acaxochitl
Acaxoch, a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acaxoch
aca(tl), reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

una flor acuática de la familia de la lobelia

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 31 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 72 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).