Cima (MH626v)

Cima (MH626v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cima ("Wild Potato") is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a plant with two curving stalks and about five leaves. At the base of the plant is a symmetrical pair of wild potatoes with small roots below them.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Apparently, this is both a wild potato (cimatl) and a medicinal plant (cimapatli or cimapahtli, with the glottal stop), which has been abbreviated in the name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Domas
çima

Gloss Normalization: 

Tomás Cima

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
diagonal or angled
facing left
profile view
roots are visible
symmetry
Keywords: 

tubers, bulbs, roots, edible, comestibles, raíces, tubérculos, plantas, comida, food

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

cima(tl), plant with edible root, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cimatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Raíz o Tubérculo Comestible

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 626v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=335st=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: 
"çi" for ci
"d" for t
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cima (MH623r)

Cima (MH520r)

Cima (MH531r)

Cimatl (MH575r)

Cimatlan (Mdz44r)

Cima (MH660r)