Chilcotoc (MH626r)

Chilcotoc (MH626r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chilcotoc is attested here as a man's name. It shows a vertical chile pepper with a curving tip, a base, and a short stem.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The full translation requires further investigation. The -cotoc ending could work in the same way that icxicotona becomes icxicotoc, the latter meaning lame. If this -cotoc also comes from cotona, to break off (but in a preterit tense), then perhaps the chile has been broken off.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

filipe
chilcotoc

Gloss Normalization:

Felipe Chilcotoc

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)

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

pointed (see also spiky)

vertical, upright

Keywords:

chiles, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chilli, chile; chile pepper(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chilli
cotona, to break off, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cotona
cococ, hot peppers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cococ

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Chile Cortado

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 626r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=334st=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).

Orthography:

"i" for e

Historical Contextualizing Image: