Xochitleuh (MH644r)

Xochitleuh (MH644r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochitleuh (perhaps "Burned Flower," attested here as a man's name) shows, on the left, an upright flower (xochitl) with a bulbous lower part and three small petals at the top. The flower also has a small base. To the right of the flower are about eight vertical lines, probably representing the flames of a fire (tletl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

It is always interesting to see the name Hernando (first name of the leader of the invading expedition in 1519, Hernando Cortés) being given to a Nahua child. Perhaps the parents interpreted it as a powerful name. It is somewhat humorous that the -do ending of the name Hernando was written as -ton (diminutive).

Perhaps more Nahua children were given names of famous Indigenous leaders or religious figures of pre-contact times. Atonal, Citlalpopoca, Tecocohua or Tecocohuatl, and Quetzalcoatl are some examples.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

helnatō xochitleuh

Gloss Normalization:

Hernando 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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

flores, fuegos, flamas, nombres de hombres

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Flor-Fuego

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 644r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=370&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).

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