Nochhuetl (MH491r)

Nochhuetl (MH491r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Nochhuetl (perhaps "Ideal Bean") features a fruit (nochtli) from a nopal cactus. It is round and spiny. It has the remnants of the flower at the top of the fruit. The "-huetl" part of the name is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

In some examples of this name, a drum (huehuetl) is provided as a phonetic indicator of the "hue" or "huetl" syllable. Alternatively, the term huehue (elder) or huehuetlahtolli (elder speech) could be indicated for this syllable. But none of these possibilities were exercised here

In other codices the cactus fruit can be painted red and resemble a human heart in shape and color, suggesting a religious significance.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

diego nochuetl

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Nochhuetl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiny

circle, circular or rounded

Keywords:

cacti, cactos, fruits, frutas, tunas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Nochhuetl, a personal name, possibly "Ideal Bean," https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nochhuetl
noch(tli), cactus fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nochtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Frijol Ideal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood, drawing from Claassen and Ammon (2022)

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 491r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=61&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: