Cocol (MH515v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cocol (perhaps "Quarrel," "Pain," or "Twisted") is attested here as male. It shows an upright object something like a cane, with a wavy shaft and a curl (colli) at the top that faces toward the viewer's right. Cocolli can refer to a quarrel or pain, and it can mean twisted, or even refer to the divine force of fire. Thus, the interpretation is a challenge. But the thrust seems to refer here to someone with pain or prone to quarrels.
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The name here has an alphabetic reduplication of the first syllable. It is unclear whether the wavy shaft (elder person's cane?) 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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luis cocol
Luis Cocol
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood
doblado, curvado, curvo, torcido, ondulado, bent, curved, undulating, wavy

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 515v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=110&st=image
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