Cocoztic (MH518v)

Cocoztic (MH518v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Cocoztic (here, attested as a man's name) is an upright yellow (coztic) flower with a stem and a leaf. The flower breaks into three petals at the top, and two stamens or pistils with small circles (anthers) at the top protrude from the petals. The flower has a bit of shading on the lower left side.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In some flowers, such as this one, the anthers are rather pronounced. The anthers are the flower parts that produce and provide the pollen, which has the reproductive capacity that has been compared in Western cultures to semen.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

filipe cocoztic

Gloss Normalization: 

Felipe Cocoztic

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Sexuality, Fertility
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
shading and parallel line hatching
tripartite
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
Keywords: 

flowers, flores, colors, colores, yellow, amarillo, nombres de hombres

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

coztic, something yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coztic
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
-tic, a suffix for adjective-like substantives, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tic-0

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 518v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=116&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).

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