Cocotl (MH632r)

Cocotl (MH632r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cocotl (attested here as a man's name) shows a ceramic pot with what may be steam coming up from it in the form of three curling volutes. How this relates to any of our dictionary terms, such as cocotl or cocotli, is unclear.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Doribio
cocotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Toribio Cocotl

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)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
volute(s)
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

cerámica, tubos que se curvan y rizan, niños y-o niñas sacrificados, nombres de hombres

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

coco(tli),tube, throat, urethra, etc., https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocotli
coco(tli), turtledove or "little one," https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocotli-0
coco(tl), pimple, sore, sacrificed child, or scorpion, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocotl
nahualcoco(tl), a sore caused by sorcery, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahualcocotl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=346&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: 
"d" for t
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cocol (MH515v)

Cocol (MH520v)

Cocol (MH501r)

Cocoton (MH770r)