Elotl (MH759r)

Elotl (MH759r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Elotl is attested here as a man's name. It shows an upright corncob, kernels visible, and some silk remaining at the top. The husk has been removed.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The term and name Xilotl is much more common than Elotl in this collection. Perhaps the name Xilotl, which refers to the corn cob when still forming kernels was more akin to a new baby (as a metaphor) than Elotl, which had already formed its kernels.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
leaf, marquise, pointed oval
frontal view
segmented
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

maíz, elote, comida, nombres de hombres

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

elo(tl), fresh ear of corn with kernels formed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/elotl
xilo(tl), ear of corn with kernels still forming, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xilotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Elote

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 759r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=596&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: 
"i" for e
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

xilotl (Verg7r)

xilotl (MH487r)

xilotl (TR26r)

Xilotl (MH600r)