Xochiman (MH831v)

Xochiman (MH831v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochiman (“Like a Flower”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a flower (xochitl) with three petals and five anthers, plus one leaf. A right hand (maitl) reaches to hold the flower from the left. This hand serves as a phonetic indicator for the end of the name -man (short for -mani, like or in the manner of).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

To be “like a flower” cannot be assumed to mean the same thing about the man’s gender performance as it might in contemporary Western culture. For other examples of glyphs for this name, see below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

mīn xochima

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín Xochiman

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)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

flores, ser como una flor, nombres de hombres

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

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
mani, to be like or in the manner of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mani-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Como una Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 831v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=737&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: 

Xochiman (MH497v)

Xochiman (MH500r)