Xochicuicuic (MH680v)

Xochicuicuic (MH680v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochicuicuic (“He Gathered Flowers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows three flowers (xochitl) held in the hand that gathered (-cuicuic) them.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Another glyph for Xochicuicuic (below) is assessed as a compound, for it has the added value of visual reduplication–all the little vertical lines around the bouquet that seemingly suggest repeated action.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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)
phrase or sentence
reduplication (in gloss/text)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Occupations
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Keywords: 

flores, recoger, verbo, pretérito, nombres

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

cui, get, fetch, or grasp, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cui
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 680v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=441&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: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xochicuicuic (MH605v)