Cocol (MH520v)

Cocol (MH520v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cocol (perhaps "Quarrel" or "Pain,") is attested here as male. It shows a vertical cane-like shape that is wavy and especially curled (colli) at the top end. 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 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.

Cocol without the absolutive ending is identified in the Online Nahuatl Dictionary as meaning "entrusted to another." Yet another possibility is that it is a reduplicated 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 or their head being hit with a stick, suggesting a quarrel.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

mīn cocol

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín Cocol

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

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: 
Emotions
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Personality, Behavior
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

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, 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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Doblado

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 520v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=120&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 (MH515v)

Colli (MH628v)

Cocol (MH602r)

Cocol (MH608v)

cocolli (Mdz37r)

Cocoliloc (MH591r)

Cocoliloc (MH643r)

Cocoliloc (MH519v)

Cocoliloc (MH658r)

Cocol (MH834r)

Cocol (MH763v)