Tzocuil (MH797v)

Tzocuil (MH797v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tzocuil (“Goldfinch” or a funny-footed bird) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two elements, each one a phonetic indicator. The top one is a lock of hair (tzontli) stretched out horizontally. Below that is a vertical wavy line that seems to point to the “cuil” that can be expressed as a curvy line in words such as ocuilin, icuiloa, and tlacuilolli.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Another Tzocuil glyph is completely different from this one, showing three strange feet, with three, four, and five toes respectively.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

anto tzocuil

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Tzocuil

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

pájaros, pelo, línea serpentina

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

tzon(tli), head of hair or lock of hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
tzocuil, a goldfinch or funny footed bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzocuil

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Jilguero

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 797v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=669&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: 
See Also: 

Xalicuilol (MH603r)

Tetlacuilol (MH686r)

Ocuil (MH777r)

Cuicuil (MH770v)