Cocole (MH880r)

Cocole (MH880r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cocole (perhaps “He Has Pain”) is attested here as a man’s name. 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. The final -e (possessive) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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: 

nicolas cocole

Gloss Normalization: 

Nicolás Cocole

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
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
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

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 880r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=832&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: 

Cocoliz (MH776v)

Cocol (MH515v)