Xochyaotl (MH746v)

Xochyaotl (MH746v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochyaotl (perhaps “Flowery Warrior,” or possibly Xochayotl, “Flowery-Turtle”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows either a turtle shell or a war shield in a horizontal, oval shape with a white border and a mesh pattern in the middle. Above the shield (typically standing for yaotl, enemy or combatant) is a flower (xochitl) with three visible petals and a tripartite sepal base.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

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:

escudos, rodelas, enemigos, combatientes, guerreros, tortugas, flores, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
yao(tl), enemy or combatant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Guerrero Florido

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 746v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=571&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:

"i" for e

Historical Contextualizing Image: