Cococ (MH498v)

Cococ (MH498v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cococ (here, attested as a man's name) shows two upright peppers, which are a food that burns the mouth and invoke the verb for this, cococ. The pepper on the right is caught in the book's binding. Both peppers have something of a wavy or curving shape. They also have bases with stems.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Chile peppers are found in other glyphs standing upright. In some cases they are also horizontal.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco
cococ

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Cococ

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Sensory Perception
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
horizontal
frontal view
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

chiles, peppers, burning the mouth, quemando la boca

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

cococ, something that burns the mouth, like hot peppers, or, misery, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cococ

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=76&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: 

chilli (Mdz13v)

Cuachil (MH517v)

chilli (Mdz37r)

chilli (Mdz37r)