Teonolxochitl (MH744v)

Teonolxochitl (MH744v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Teonolxochitl (perhaps “Divine Folded Flower”) is attested here as a woman’s name. It shows a frontal view of a white, upright flower (xochitl) with five visible petals and a three-part sepal base. Below the flower is a horizontal, striped stone (tetl) with some shading and the usual curling ends. The stone serves as the phonetic Teo- start to the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

If the -nol- element does not come from the indicated verb that refers to being bent or folded, this compound might really have meant Teonochxochitl, which is a glyph for a personal name that is found on folio 722 recto of this same manuscript. Below are two examples of a similar but shorter name, Teoxoch, which might also be a divine flower. In one case, the stone is also used for Teo-. In the other, a face provides the Teo- element.

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)

verb

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Religion (Indigenous)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

striped

tripartite

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

flowers, stones, flores, piedras, nombrs de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

teo(tl), divinity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teotl
noloa, to bend or fold over, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/noloa
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Flor Divina Doblada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 744v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=567&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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