Xochitequitl (MH483r)

Xochitequitl (MH483r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochitequitl ("Flower Work," attested here as a man’s name) shows a container with three cut blossoms (xochitl) and, below that, a stone that serves either as a phonetic indicator for -tequitl or a semantic indicator for the action of cutting with the stone (tequi, the verb), or the job of cutting flowers. The stone is horizontal with curling ends and diagonal stripes, light and dark.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

xochitequitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Xochitequitl

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)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
horizontal
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
tripartite
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

flowers, flores, work, trabajo

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flores-Trabajo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=47&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: 
See Also: 

Xochitequitl (MH503r)