Xochinemi (MH499v)

Xochinemi (MH499v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochinemi ("He Goes About the Flowers," attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a large blossom with a tripartite sepal and a short stem. The edges at the top of the flower (xochitl) swirl somewhat. There is nothing in the glyph to convey the second part of the name (-nemi), to live or go about.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

felipe
xochinemi

Gloss Normalization:

Felipe Xochinemi

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

phrase or sentence

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

tripartite

Keywords:

flowers, flores, andar por

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
nemi, to live, to go about, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemi

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Anda por las Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 499v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=78&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: