Xico (MH615v)

Xico (MH615v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xico (perhaps "Honeybee" or "Bumblebee") shows a profile view of a bee (xicotli), with its striped body and wings, one antenna, and two forelegs.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

In the sixteenth century, there was a metaphorical diphrase found in the Florentine Codex, "xicotli pipiolti," which referred to people who got invited to spend time with the nobles. [See: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 163.] Thus, perhaps Xico was a name that meant privileged or spoiled.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

marti xicon

Gloss Normalization:

Martín Xico

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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

segmented

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

bees, abejas, abejorros, jicotes, insects, insectos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xico(tli), a large type of honeybee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xicotli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Abejorro

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 615v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=313st=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).

Orthography:

dropped "n"

intrusive "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: