Cocol (MH515v)

Cocol (MH515v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

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.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

luis cocol

Gloss Normalization: 

Luis Cocol

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: 
homophony, rebus
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Aging (People, Animals, Things)
Emotions
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Personality, Behavior
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
vertical, upright
wavy
Keywords: 

doblado, curvado, curvo, torcido, ondulado, bent, curved, undulating, wavy

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Pelea, Dolor, o Retorcido

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 515v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=110&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: 

Huicotl (MH516r)

Cocol (MH520v)

Cocol (MH602r)

Cocoliloc (MH591r)

cocolli (Mdz37r)

Cocoliloc (MH658r)

Cocoliloc (MH660v)

Cocol (MH834r)

Cocol (MH763v)

Cocol (MH885r)