Xochiahuilli (MH650r)

Xochiahuilli (MH650r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful compound glyph for the personal name Xochiahuilli ("Flower Play," attested here as pertaining to a man) shows a green sprig with four red or pink flowers (xochitl). Three are actually buds and one is open. Below the flowers is a swirling cascade of turquoise blue water (atl) with lines of current (movement) going down the streams and shells and droplets at the bottom. The atl seems to have a phonetic role for the start of the "ahuilli" part of the name, although some translations of the name Xochiahuilli refer to watering flowers or scattering them.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luis xochi ahuili

Gloss Normalization:

Luis Xochiahuilli

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

visible movement

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Turquoise or Jade

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

plantas, flores, agua, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Xochiahuilli, personal name referring to watering or scattering flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochiahuilli
xochi(tl), flower(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
ahuil(li), play or frivolity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ahuilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Acto de Regar Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 650r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=382&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: