Zacatototl (MH783r)

Zacatototl (MH783r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Zacatototl (perhaps “Straw-Bird” or “Hay-Bird”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a bird (tototl) in profile, facing the viewer’s right. Coming up from the top of its head are what appear to be five blades of grass (zacatl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This name may come from a bird known to live in tall grasses.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ju^o thothotl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Tototl

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

spiky

Keywords:

pájaros, paja, hierbas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zaca(tl), grass, straw, or hay, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
toto(tl), bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tototl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Zacate-Pájaro

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 783r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=640&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

"th" for t, d, or gd

intrusive "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: