Xochitequitl (MH503r)

Xochitequitl (MH503r)
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 hand dramatically grabbing a flower (xochitl) at its base, as though about to break it off or cut it (tequi). (No cutting tool is shown, however.)

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

thomas
xochiteguitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Tomás Xochitequitl

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Occupations
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

flowers, flores, work, trabajo

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

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
tequi(tl), work, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flores-Trabajo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 503r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=83&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: 
"g" for c, q, or x
"th" for t, d, or gd
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xochitequitl (MH483r)