Xochitlahuilan (MH659r)

Xochitlahuilan (MH659r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochitlahuilan (“Dragged Flower”) shows an upright flower with three visible petals, two stamen with small white balls at the tips, three vertical lines on the lower part of the flower and a base enclosing the bottoms of the petals. Attached to the flower is a rope or cord, which gives the impression that the flower would have been dragged by it (recalling the verb, tlahuilana). Someone’s right hand (and part of the forearm attached to the hand) is grabbing onto the twisted rope.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā xochitlavillā

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Xochitlahuilan

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)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Rope, cord

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

frontal view

profile view

tied, bound, or bundled

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

flores, arrastrar, sogas, manos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
tlahuilan(tli), something dragged, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuilantli
tlahuilana, to drag something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuilana

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Flor Arrastrada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 659r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=398&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: