Cocol (MH834r)

Cocol (MH834r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cocol (perhaps "Quarrel," "Pain," or "Twisted") is attested here as male. It shows something curvy (colli) that is also a snake (coatl) or a worm, given the head with the eye. So, it is being considered here as a compound glyph. The object that is both curvy and a snake could also possibly account for the reduplication of the co-.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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: 

dio. cocol

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego 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: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Aging (People, Animals, Things)
Animals: Misc.
Emotions
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: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
wavy
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

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

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

coa(tl), snake, serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
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, 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 834r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=742&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)

Cocol (MH602r)

Cocol (MH608v)