Ocochichinol (MH572v)

Ocochichinol (MH572v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ocochichinol (“A Pine Torch Burn,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of vertical pieces of torch pine [ocotl, possibly with flames arising at the top.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The chichinoa verb, to singe, scorch, or burn, relates to this noun, as it also relates to tlachinolli, scorched earth.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luys ocochichinol

Gloss Normalization:

Luis Ocochichinol

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

vertical, upright

Keywords:

fatwood, torch pine, pino, firewood, leña, ocotes

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

oco(tl), pine torch wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocotl
tlachinol(li), fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlachinolli
chichinol(li), a burn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chichinolli
chichinoa, to singe, scorch, burn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chichinoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Quemadura de Ocote

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 572v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=224&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: