Pocxiuh (MH714r)

Pocxiuh (MH714r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This colorful compound glyph for the personal name, Pocxiuh (“Smoky Herbs” or “Green Smoke”), is attested here as a woman’s name. It shows a mass of volutes emanating from the mouth of the woman in question. They are green, blue, and black. They go out horizontally, but they curl under at the ends.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The name could actually be “Green Smoke,” or it could refer to a smoky green herb. If the latter, then the elements of this compound are fully phonographic. See the other glyph for Pocxiuh in this collection (below), which seems to refer to herbs.

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
green (light)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
volute(s)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

humo, verde, azul, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

poc(tli), smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poctli
xihui(tl), herbs, or green, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Humo Verde

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 714r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=506.

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: 
"d" for t
"g" for c, q, or x
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Pocxiuh (MH546r)

Poctli (MH833v)

poctli (Mdz17v)

Poctli (MH499v)