Xochiten (MH627v)

Xochiten (MH627v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochiten ("Rosy Lipped" or "Eloquent") is attested here as a man's name. The compound features an extra man's head, in profile view, facing toward the viewer's right. The stem of a flower attaches to his lower lip. The flower is somewhat horizontal and then rising up.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The translation for Xochiten seems to come best from the translation of the word Xochitenqui, although it can mean someone with red, rosy, flowery, pretty lips or someone who is eloquent. For studies of gender attributes, it is interesting that such a name is given to a man--of course, not that there is any reason that it should be associated with women, but some people in Western culture might think so.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juan
xochitē

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Xochiten

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: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Appearance
Flowers
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

mouths, bocas, lips, labios, appearance, apariencia, flowers, flores, nombres de hombres

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

xochitenqui, red, flowery, or pretty lips, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitenqui
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
ten(tli), lip, mouth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flor-Boca o Flor-Labios

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 627v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=337&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: 
See Also: 

Tencax (MH604r)

Yacatl (MH564r)

Nacazpatlac (MH627r)

Nacazpatlactic (MH626v)