Comil (MH733r)

Comil (MH733r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Comil (perhaps “Curved Milpa”), is attested here as a man’s name.

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)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
bird's eye view
profile view
rectangular
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

agricultura, sementeras, milpas, corvado, curvar, doblado, doblar, nombres de hombres

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

col(li), something bent, twisted, curling, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1
mil(li), an agricultural field, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/milli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Milpa Doblado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 733r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=544&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 (MH501r)

Cocol (MH520v)

Xochimilco (MH650r)

Milpolco (T1735:2:109)