Acoyotl (MH896r)

Acoyotl (MH896r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Acoyotl (“Neotropic Cormorant,” a waterfowl) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a coyote (coyotl) in a profile view, looking right. The animal is largely white with some gray areas, such as around the snout and on the back of the head and neck. Coming down from the head are three short streams of water (atl), with their lines of current (movement) and droplets/beads at their lower tips. Since this glyph refers to a cormorant and not a water-coyote, it is a fully phonographic compound.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po. acoyotl ycnooq~chtli

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Acoyotl, icnooquichtli

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Misc.
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

pájaros, cormoranes, aves acuáticos, agua, coyotes, nombres de hombres

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

acoyo(tl), a waterfowl, the neotropic cormorant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acoyotl
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
coyo(tl), coyote, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cormorán (un ave acuático)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 896r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=864&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Acoyotl (MH522v)

atl (Mdz20r)

coyotl (Mdz5v)