Xico (MH843v)

Xico (MH843v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xico (perhaps "Honeybee" or "Bumblebee") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a bee (xicotli) in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. It is leaning back a little bit. Its body is segmented, and it has what may be a wing on its back and two visible legs. The wing and head are both black.

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: 

mīn xico

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
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/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
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 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 843v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=743&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: 

Xico (MH483r)

Xico (MH615v)

Xico (MH736r)

Xico (MH679r)