Huitzquilocan (Mdz32r)

Huitzquilocan (Mdz32r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Huitzquilocan shows a medicinal and edible herb [the huitzquilitl) on a hill or mountain top. The plant appears in three sprigs, with 5-6 leaves per stalk. These fan out over the top of the hill or mountain. They are painted a two-tone green. The mountain also has a two-tone green bell shape, with a red and a yellow horizontal stripe at the base. Curly, rocky outcroppings appear on each side of the mountain.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The mountain is a silent locative and does not have a phonetic role in the place name. The huitzquilitl is a more specific herb than the more generic quilitl, called a quelite in Mexican Spanish.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pu^ohuizquilocan

Gloss Normalization:

pueblo, Huitzquilocan

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (visual but silent)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Food, Eating, Cooking

Health, Medicine

Landscape Features

Plants, Flora

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

herbs, hierbas, plantas medicinales

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huitzquili(tl), an edible, medicinal plant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzquilitl
quili(tl), edible herbs, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quilitl
-yoh-, embodying that quality, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yoh-0
-can (locative suffix), where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Karttunen’s Interpretation:

"Place Full of Huitzquilitl" (apparently agreeing with Berdan and Anawalt) [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

"Place Full of Huitzquilitl" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. 190)

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 32 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 74 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).