Xocoyol (Mdz2r)

Xocoyol (Mdz2r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the personal name Xocoyol includes two elements, a foot (xo) and a bell (coyolli) tied with a red leather thong around the ankle. The partial leg and foot are painted a light terracotta color. The bell is yellow.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

It is not clear whether this person's name really had to do with a bell (coyolli) that was tied on the foot (xo-, possibly for the purpose of dancing), or whether these are just phonetic indicators for the plant, the xocoyolli, that was and still is a part of the Nahua diet (see below, right). Glyphs for personal names show both ankle ornamentation and the sorrel plant.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

xocoyol

Gloss Normalization: 

Xocoyol

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic possibilities
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Leather, hides
Music, Song, Dance
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
facing right
profile view
tied, bound, or bundled
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
back to front
Keywords: 

bells, cascabeles, campanillas, campanas, pinjantes, metales, foot, feet, pies, nombres de hombres

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

xo-, having to do with feet, akin to ped- in pedestrian, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xo
coyol(li), a leg bell for dancing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyolli
xocoyol(li), sorrel, an herb, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xocoyolli

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 2 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english

Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

xocoyolli (Mdz41r)

Xocoyoltepec (Mdz41r)

Xocoyol (MH609r)

xo (Mdz2r)

coyolli (Mdz2r)

Tecuecuex (MH839v)

Cuecuex (MH668v)

Cuecuex (MH668v)

Tecuecuex (MH783v)