Xopehualoc (MH721v)

Xopehualoc (MH721v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xopehualoc (“He Was Kicked”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a bare leg in profile facing right and a human head at the site of the foot, with the implication of someone being kicked (xopehualo).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The verb tense is not visual.

Added Analysis, 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:

verb

passive tense

preterit tense

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

War or Conflict

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

pies, dar punta pie, patear a alguien, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xopehua, to kick someone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xopehua
lo (passive), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/lo
-c (preterit indicator), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c-3

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Dado Punta Pie

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 721v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=521&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: