Zacaton (MH663r)

Zacaton (MH663r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Zacaton (“Little Weed”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a plant with four blades of grass and a little flower coming up the middle. The roots are visible.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The relative size of this clump of grass or weeds is not obviously reduced over the surrounding glyphs. So, the diminutive is mainly noted in the gloss.

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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiky
roots are visible
diminutive (visual)
Keywords: 

hierbas, zacate, pequeño, nombres de hombres

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

zaca(tl), grasses or weeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
-ton, little, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ton

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Zacate Pequeño

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 663r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=406&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
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Zacamol (MH497v)

Zacapechcatl (MH648v)

zacatl (Mdz40r)