Cocotli (MH563r)

Cocotli (MH563r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cocotli (perhaps “Throat,” or "Turtle Dove," attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of what appears to be a cocoon with a head on top. It is vertical and segmented. The head is facing toward the viewer's right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

A cocotli can be a throat or a turtle dove. The head gives attention to the possibility of throat. Another reading could be cocotl, expressed here as a dialectical variant (with the added "i" on the end), and meaning either pimple or scorpion, but the glyph looks like neither of those. So, the translation is a mystery. See below for other cocoon-like glyphs.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pilipe cocotli

Gloss Normalization: 

Felipe Cocotli

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

turtledoves, birds, tortolillas, pájaros. gargantas, throats

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

coco(tli), throat, turtledove, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocotli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Tórtola, o Garganta

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 563r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=205&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: 

Temic (MH563r)

nahualli (HJ276:79:pt1:24r)

Nahual (MH509r)