Cocol (MH520v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cocol (perhaps "Quarrel" or "Entrusted to Another Person," attested here as male) shows an upright object with a curve at the top and a wavy shaft. The curl at the top faces toward the viewer's right. The word colli describes something curved or bent, so this could be a phonetic indicator.
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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 sign may serve as a rebus-phonogram for the term cocolli, which refers to a quarrel, dispute, or anger and may be what this name really intends. Cocol without the absolutive is identified in the Online Nahuatl Dictionary as meaning "entrusted to another." Yet another possibility is that it is a rebus for grandparents or ancestors (colli). But note how glyphs for the name Cocoliloc can be like this, a curvy cane or else an image of men with their hair being pulled (suggesting a quarrel).
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mīn cocol
Martín Cocol
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1560
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doblado, curvado, curvo, torcido, ondulado, bent, curved, undulating, wavy
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
cocoltic, something twisted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocoltic
cocol(li), a quarrel, the divine force of fire, or something twisted (such as bread), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocolli
coltic, curved, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coltic
cocoloa, to go bending, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocoloa
cocolihui, to have turns and loops, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocolihui
col(li), grandparent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli
Doblado
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 520v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=120&st=image
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