Axocotl (MH490v)

Axocotl (MH490v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound personal name glyph, Axocotl (perhaps "Sour Fruit Beverage") consists of a round fruit with a three-way stream of water dropping down from the fruit.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The word xocotl stands for a hog plum or for fruit in general. The word xococ means sour or tart. The somewhat tart beverage, axocotl, adds the "a" from water (atl) to the name. The name Axocotl is attested as male here, borne by a man named Pablo, evidence that he has been baptized as a Christian.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Beverages
Food, Eating, Cooking
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

beverages, bebidas, sour, tart, ágrio, acídico

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

axoco(tl), a tart beverage, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/axocotl
xoco(tl), hog plum, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xocotl
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
xococ, sour, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xococ

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Bebida Ágria de Fruta

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=60&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: 

xocotl (Mdz27r)

xocotl (Mdz55r)

xocotl (Mdz8r)