Elotl (MH745v)

Elotl (MH745v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Elotl (“Fresh Corn Cob”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows one vertical cob of corn, missing the husk that once enclosed it, but still retaining a bit of silk at the top. The kernels are visible.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Elote is a major feature of Mexican cuisine. With 5,000+ records in this database (spring 2024), the noun xilotl (green corn) is much more in evidence than the noun elotl (ripened corn). This is somewhat surprising, given that the Hispanized form, elote, is much more common in Mexican Spanish than jilote.

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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

elo(tl), a fresh ear of maize, not yet dried, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acolhua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Elote

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 745v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=569&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).

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