Cocol (MH501r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cocol (perhaps perhaps "Quarrel," "Pain," or "Twisted") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a line with at least two curves or bends (colli) to it. It may be a piece of string seen from a bird's eye view. The effect of the name is "Curvy," but this seems to be a phonetic indicator meant to bring forth cocol, "to be entrusted to another," or cocolli, "quarrel."
Stephanie Wood
The name here has an alphabetic reduplication of the first syllable. It is unclear whether the wavy line is enough to show a visualization of the reduplication of the "col" (curvy) element in this name. Such a visualization of reduplication is something we are trying to locate and track.
This name has various visual representations in this digital collection, and it requires further study before settling upon a satisfactory translation. See the dictionary entries. The visual variation may mean that some glyphs represent one translation of cocol- and some represent a different one. Some could be literal, and some may be phonetic indicators.
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franco
cocol
Francisco Cocol
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood

cocol(li), a quarrel, pain, something twisted, or the divine force of fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocolli
cocol, to be entrusted to another person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocol
col(li), something bent, twisted, or curling, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1
cocoloa, to go bending and twisting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocoloa
cocolihui, to have turns and loops, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocolihui
cocoltic, something twisted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocoltic
cocolia, to detest or hate someone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocolia
posiblemente, Pelea, Dolor, o Retorcido
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 501r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=81&st=image
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