Xipopoca (MH775r)

Xipopoca (MH775r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xipopoca (perhaps "Turquoise Smoke") is attested here as a man's name. Four symmetrically arranged mosaic turquoise (xihuitl) pieces provide the start to the name, Xi-. The reduplicated ending, -popoca, is represented by three smoke curls (popoca) that rise from the xihuitl.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

marti . xipopoca

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín Xipopoca

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: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Art, Design, Crafts, etc.
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Turquoise or Jade
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
frontal view
quincunx or quatrefoil
rectangular
tripartite
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

turquesa, téselas, humo, humear, volutas, rectángulos, mosáicos, nombres de hombres

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

xihui(tl), turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
xiuh-, turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xiuh-1
xi- (combining element) for turquoise blue, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xi-4
popoca, for something to smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Turquesa-Humear, o Humo Verde (_)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 775r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=624&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).

Orthography: 
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xiuhnel (MH513r)

popoca (Mdz4v)

popoca (MH483v)

xihuitl (Mxnus19)