Zacamo (MH725r)

Zacamo (MH725r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Zacamo (“He Weeded” or “He Tilled the Soil”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a fist holding a tool that looks like a huictli. The wider end of the tool is at the top, and the point is at the bottom. The hand is reaching in from the viewer’s left.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

A related word is the noun, zacamolli, which is ground that has been weeded, broken up, and prepared for planting. The root for both the verb and the noun seems to be zacatl, weeds or grasses. A glyph for Zacamol, below, shows some weeds and a tool (probably the huictli) that would be used to dig up the land and get rid of the weeds.

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

preterit tense

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

pointed (see also spiky)

Keywords:

herramientas, coas, agricultura, preparar la tierra, cultivar, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zacamoa, to break up the land, remove weeds, prepare for planting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacamoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Labró la Tierra

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 725r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=528&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).

Orthography:

"ç" for z or tz

intrusive "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: