Xochicuicuic (MH605v)

Xochicuicuic (MH605v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochicuicuic (“He Gathered Flowers,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a human hand gathering (indicating the verb, cuicui) two flowers (xochitl). Additional, short, vertical black lines may indicate a repeating activity and motion. The result is a visual and textual reduplication.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juan xochicuicuic

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Xochicuicuic

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)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

verb

preterit tense

visible movement

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Flowers

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

flores, recoger, movimiento visual

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
cuicui, to gather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Recogió Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 605v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=293&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: