chilli (T1871:1)

chilli (T1871:1)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for a chile pepper (chilli) shows a vertical red pepper with the point upward and green stem down. The pepper curves somewhat.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This comes from a land case in the Ramo de Tierras of the Archivo General de la Nación. As the gloss shows, the pepper is painted with the intention of referring to someone's chile field. The i- is a possessive pronoun, the -chil- is the root of chilli, and -mil refers to field (milli).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

ychilmil

Gloss Normalization: 

ichilmil

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
AGN Tierras 1871, exp. 1
Date of Manuscript: 

1558

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Cuauhtla, Morelos

Syntax: 
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Food, Eating, Cooking
Land Parcels, Use, Issues
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
green (light)
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

peppers, chiles

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

chilli, chile, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chilli

Image Source: 

Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1871, exp. 1, fol. 28r.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

See Also: 

chilli (Mdz37r)

chilli (Mdz37r)

chilli (Mdz13v)

chilli (CST25)