Zacacatl (MH492v)

Zacacatl (MH492v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Diego Zacacatl has one element, a clump of grass or weeds (zacatl). It is a black-line drawing with upright, somewhat curving blades of grass and perhaps two small flowers at the top.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The man who bears this name may be from a place called Zacaco (today, Zacanco), given the presence of the -catl (ethnic affiliation) on the end of the noun zacatl. The gloss leaves the cedilla off the first c, but the glyph suggests zacatl.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego cacacatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Zacacatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

names, nombres, zacate, grasses, hay, straw, plants, plantas

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

zaca(tl), grasses, straw, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 492v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=52&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).

See Also: 

zacatl (Mdz13r)

zacatl (Mdz50r)

zacatl (Mdz38r)

Zacacatl (MH625r)

Zacacatl (MH507r)

Zacacatl (MH513v)