Nochhuetl (MH679v)

Nochhuetl (MH679v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Nochhuetl (perhaps “Ideal Bean”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a prickly pear cactus fruit (nochtli), with its spines and a flowery top. Below this fruit may be a bean (etl), provided as a phonetic indicator for the -huetl part of the name and perhaps a semantic indicator (bean), which has been suggested by some authors as part of the translation for the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

In one glyph for Nochhuetl the cactus fruit is paired with a huehuetl drum. In another example, the person with the name has wrinkles on his face to suggest huehue (elder). Both of these are apparently just other phonetic indicators for the -huetl suffix on the name and do not make a semantic contribution.

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 of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

frutas, tunas, nopalli, frijoles, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Nochhuetl, a name, perhaps meaning "ideal bean," https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nochhuetl
noch(tli), prickly pear cactus fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nochtli
e(tl), bean, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/etl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Frijol Ideal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood, drawing from Claassen and Ammon (2022)

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 679v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=439&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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