Alpozoqui (MH703v)

Alpozoqui (MH703v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Alpozoqui (“Water Foamer”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of a whirlpool of water (atl) with lines of current, droplets on the tips of three splashes, and, at the bottom, an accumulation of foam (pozoctli).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The loss of the “t” in atl is not unknown; the example of altepetl immediately comes to mind. Swirling water is not unusual. Typically, it swirls in a rounded way; at other times, the swirls have a step fret design.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

fran^co alpozoqui

Gloss Normalization:

Francisco Alpozoqui

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:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

agua, espuma, remolinos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
pozoc(tli), foam, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pozoctli
pozoctia, to cause to foam, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pozoctia
-qui, one who does this, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Que Hace Espuma en el Agua

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 703v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=485&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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