Tomixiuh (MH495v)

Tomixiuh (MH495v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tomixiuh (perhaps "Our Green Bones," if meant literally) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a white bone (omitl) at an angle and plant material with leaves that, if colored green here, would indicate (xihuitl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The bone, like many body parts, seems to have a possessive pronoun ("to-," our) at the start. This possessive is not shown visually. If the bone is not a literal component, then perhaps it is a phonetic indicator for the verb tomi. If so, then when combined with the shedding of the leaves of a plant, this could be a metaphor for coming undone.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

gaspar
tomixiuh

Gloss Normalization: 

Gaspar Tomixiuh

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)
possessive pronoun
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
facing right
profile view
roots are visible
scalloped edges
shading and parallel line hatching
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

omi(tl), bone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/omitl
xihui(tl), herbs, green, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
to- (first person plural possessive pronoun), our, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783
tomi, to become untied, unraveled, undone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tomi

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&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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