Xomimitl (Mdz2r)

Xomimitl (Mdz2r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the personal name Xomimitl has two principal elements. One is part of an upright leg with a foot (xo), and the other is an arrow (mitl). The foot is shown in profile, headed in the direction of the viewer's left. It is colored a light terracotta. The arrow heads in the opposite direction, piercing through the human anatomy at about the height of the ankle. The horizontal arrow has a yellow shaft (perhaps an acatl) with what appears to be a gray or purple eagle-wing feather and a white down feather as decoration. The end of the arrow near the arrow head is painted red.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The translation of this compound glyph requires further analysis. Perhaps it is "Pierced Foot." It is the name of a famous Colhua man in Mexica history. See The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886), 308. The reduplication of the "mi" element in the gloss (name written alphabetically) does not appear to have a corresponding visual reduplication.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

xomimitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Xomimitl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
xo syllable
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Colors: 
gray
orange/terracotta
purple
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
facing right
horizontal
profile view
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

arrows, flechas, feet, pies, legs, piernas, feathers, plumas

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

xo, relating to foot/feet, as in the English syllable "ped," https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xo
mi(tl), arrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl

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)

See Also: 

xo (Mdz2r)

mitl (Mdz2r)