Camil (MH759v)

Camil (MH759v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Camil is attested here as a woman's name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The flower of the poyomatli looks much like this one (see MH 714 recto). In that example, the color is a dark yellow, not a brown. But perhaps it could range toward brown.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
Color names
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

nombres de colores, marrón, nombres de mujeres, flores

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

camiltic, a purple-brown color, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/camiltic
camilihui, to become brown

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Marrón (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 759v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=597&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: 

Poyon (MH567v)

Xochitonal (MH609r)

Mazahuatl (MH517v)

xochitl (MH607r)