Xocoyol (Mdz2r)
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.
Stephanie Wood
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). Still, it seems more likely that a personal name would have to do with jingle bells for dancing than for edible greens. If it were a place name, then xocoyolli, the food, might be more likely.
Stephanie Wood
xocoyol
Xocoyol
Stephanie Wood
by 1553 at the latest
bells, cascabeles, campanillas, campanas, pinjantes, metales, foot, feet, pies, nombres de hombres
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
Codex Mendoza, folio 2 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english
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)
