Cihuaxochitl (MH537r)

Cihuaxochitl (MH537r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cihuaxochitl (“Woman-Flower,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a woman's (cihuatl) head in profile, facing right, and out from under her chin emerges a stem with two leaves and an upright flower (xochitl) in a frontal view. The flower has a base and three obvious petals. The woman's head is tilted upward slightly, her visible eye is open, and her mouth may be slightly open.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The two leaves may be present in this compound with the intention of providing phonetic support for the "hua" syllable in cihuatl. But such an intention could also be a stretch in this case.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco. zihuaxochitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Cihuaxochitl

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: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
hua (from izhuatl, leaves)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
tripartite
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

woman, women, mujeres, flowers, flores, nombres de hombres

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

cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 537r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=153&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: 

Cihuaxochitl (MH749r)