Cozauh (MH622r)

Cozauh (MH622r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Cozauh (perhaps "He Has Turned Yellow," attested here as male) shows a simple circle. The dot in the center may be intentional, or perhaps not. (Another Cozauh glyph from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco does not have the dot in the center.) The name could refer to the color yellow or to the metal, gold, perhaps a gold coin.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Support for this being a gold coin is provided, if weakly, by the glyph for Teocuitlahua, below. If a baby is given the name "He Has Turned Yellow," perhaps it is because he was jaundiced when he was born.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

antonio coçauh

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Cozauh

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
Syntax: 
adjective
phrase or sentence
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Gender (male)
Money, Coins, Prices
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
Keywords: 

amarillo, yellow, color names, nombres de colores, oro, dinero, monedas

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

cozauhqui, yellow, but can also be gold metal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozauhqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Amarillo, o El Oro

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 622r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=326st=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).

Orthography: 
"ç" for z or tz
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

cozauhqui (Mdz16r)

Teocuitlahua (MH573v)

Tomin (MH569v)

Cozauh (MH625v)

Cozauh (MH631v)