Xochitleuh (MH642r)

Xochitleuh (MH642r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochitleuh (perhaps "Flower's Fire") is attested here as pertaining to a man. The flower (xochitl) is large and upright, with three visible petals. It has a small base. Coming off the top of the flower are about six flames of the fire (tletl) mentioned in the name. It seems that the tletl is possessed, with the two "i"'s having merged in the middle of the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

sochitleuh

Gloss Normalization:

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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

green (dark)

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement

vertical, upright

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

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, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
tlehua, one who has fire, also a name of a serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlehua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

La calentura de la flor (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 642r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=366&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:

"s" for x

Historical Contextualizing Image: