Cocol (MH763v)

Cocol (MH763v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cocol (perhaps "Quarrel" or "Entrusted to Another Person," attested here as a man’s name) shows a line with at least two curves or bends (colli) to it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Aging (People, Animals, Things)
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Personality, Behavior
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
wavy
vertical, upright
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
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
cocolia, to detest or hate someone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocolia

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Doblado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 763v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=605&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: 

Cocol (MH515v)

Cocol (MH520v)

Cocol (MH501r)