Tzocotli (MH705r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tzocotli (perhaps “Little Bit” or “Smallest Child”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a vertical bundle called tzontli (referring to the number 400–whether pieces of hair, tribute items such as blades of grass, sticks, etc.). This is a phonetic indicator that the name starts with Tzo-.
Stephanie Wood
Frances Karttunen had not seen the term tzoco with anything other than endings such as -ton (diminutive) or -tzin (reverential). Here, there is a rare absolutive ending. The tlacuilo also provides an overbar, as though the name should be tzocontli, but this spelling does not seem correct, so we are ignoring the overbar. Karttunen wonders of tzoco is like xoco, referring to a smallest or youngest child.
Stephanie Wood
gaspar tzocōtli
Gaspar Tzocotli
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
tributos, números, cuatrocientos, zacatl, hierbas, chiquito, joven, nombres de hombres
tzon(tli), hair or four hundred, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
tzoco, a little bit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzoco
posiblemente, Chico, Más Pequeño, o Más Joven
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 705r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=488&st=image.
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