Xochitequi (MH649r)

Xochitequi (MH649r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful compound glyph for the personal name Xochitequi ("Flower-Cutter"?) appears here as a man's name. Perhaps it is an occupation. It shows a flower (xochitl) with three petals painted pink or red, but with white at the bottom. A green base encloses the petals, also tripartites. Below the flower is a black and white stone, apparently providing for a semantic reading for the verb "to cut" (tequi). The stone has some curls on the ends and black and white alternating stripes. The white stripe has some thin black lines running through it.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

goçalo xochitegui

Gloss Normalization:

Gonzalo Xochitequi

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)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Occupations

Plants, Flora

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

striped

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

flores, piedras, cortar, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cortar (o Coger) Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 649r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=380&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).

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