Mocuicazoma (MH741v)

Mocuicazoma (MH741v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Mocuicazoma (perhaps “Your Angry Song”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph consists of a mouth or set of teeth with small, curling, scrolls emerging and rising up. These scrolls refer to a song (cuicatl) or singing (cuica). The lips (tentli) or teeth (tlantli) would often provide a phonetic feature to the name, but such is not obviously the case here. The apparent verb, zoma, to frown in anger—if that is the correct interpretation--is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This -zoma suffix is also found on the name Motecuhzoma, which is also a possessed noun leading up to the suffix. The question arises as to whether this construction has some alternative or additional thrust shared by both names.

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:

possessive pronoun

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

volute(s)

Keywords:

boca, labios, dientes, canción, canciones, volutas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

mo- (second-person singular possessive pronoun), your, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mo
cuica(tl), song, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicatl
zoma, to frown in anger, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zoma

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Tu Canción de Enojo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 741v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=561&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:

"ç" for z or tz

Historical Contextualizing Image: