Cicuil (MH555r)

Cicuil (MH555r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cicuil (“Small Body” or "Carcass," attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of a small, reclining, human figure with hands in the air, messy short hair on the head, prominent ribs, and one leg raised slightly, as though in movement. A cicuilli is a small body, which fits the image.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Note how the ribs are also prominent in other glyphs for the name Cicuil. The attention to ribs may represent an effort to provide a phonetic indicator for the name Cicuil by pointing to these bones, called omicicuilli. Incidentally, the gloss adds the note "omique," which may mean "they died," referring to the man with this name and other men on the same page. Alternatively, this gloss may be an effort to clarify that this name should be Omicicuil ("Ribs")!

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

cicuil Omique

Gloss Normalization: 

Cicuil; omique (or omiqueh, adding the glottal stop)

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
personal name
Syntax: 
cuil (tracking)
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing upward
horizontal
profile view
Keywords: 

cuerpo pequeño, small body, bones, huesos

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

cicuil(li), small body or carcass, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cicuilli
miqui, to die, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miqui
omicicuil(li), rib bones, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/omicicuilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Costillas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 555r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=189&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: 

Omiton (MH517v)

Tlalomi (MH522r)

Cicuil (MH536r)

Cicuil (MH642v)