Xochitleuh (MH486r)

Xochitleuh (MH486r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochitleuh (perhaps "Flower's Fire," attested here as male) has two main elements. Most prominent is a flower, upright and with three prominent petals, plus a base. Surrounding the flower are small, squiggly lines which may related to a fever-like heat coming off the flame (tletl)--?

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The -uh ending for tletl suggests possession. So, it may refer to a perceived heat of the flower. This syllable is not shown visually.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro xochitleuh

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Xochitleuh

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)
possessive pronoun (no-, to-, i-, etc.)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Gender (male)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
vertical, upright
tripartite
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

flowers, fever, flores, fiebre, fire, fuego, flames, flamas

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

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
tle(tl), fire, fever, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
-uh (possessor suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/uh

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Calentura de la Flor (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 486r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=51&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: 

Xochitleuh (MH671v)