Cozmitl (MH662v)

Cozmitl (MH662v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cozmitl (“Calf-Arrow”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a calf of a leg (coztli) having been pierced through with an arrow (mitl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

There is a similar glyph in the Codex Mendoza that is labeled Xomimitl (see below). It is possible, perhaps, that the alternate spelling Cotzmitl (found in the gloss) is really what was meant, and so maybe the arrow-leg visual is a phonetic indicator. But Cotzmitl has yet to be found in a dictionary.

Added Analysis, 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: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Water
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
profile view
facing left
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inward (from outside in)
Keywords: 

piernas, flechas, nombres de hombres

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

coz(tli), the calf of the leg, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coztli
mi(tl), an arrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pantorrilla-Flecha

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 662v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=405&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).

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

Xomimitl (Mdz2r)