Xochitlal (MH869r)

Xochitlal (MH869r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochitlal (perhaps “Flower Field”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a small, dark rectangular field (tlalli) out of which are growing three three-petaled flowers (xochitl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Milli and tlalli are the most common names for agricultural parcels. The place name Xochimilco combines flowers and the milli (which became milpa in Mexican Spanish). Xoxhitlal has a similar construction.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ju^o xochitlal

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Xochitlal

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Flowers

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

tierras, flores, parcelas, agricultura, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Jardín de Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 869r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=810&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: