Xonecuil (MH720v)

Xonecuil (MH720v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xonecuil (perhaps “Zigzag-Shape Staff” or “Twisted Leg”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a zigzag-shaped, perhaps wooden staff with a feather at the top, akin to the decoration on an arrow.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This could be a logogram or it could have phonetic possibilities, depending upon which translation of Xonecuil is intended. See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary for further information about the term xonecuilli. The xonecuilli could refer to a staff that was a religious offering, a twisted leg, a type of cactus, or an "S-shaped" tortilla. Finally, a xonecuilli could reference a constellation, citlalxonecuilli.

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: 
Gender (male)
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Keywords: 

varas, tortillas torcidas, pierna torcida, ofrendas, nombres de hombres

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

xonecuil(li), an S-shaped tortilla or zigzag-shaped staff offering, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xonecuilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Vara Torcida (que se da como ofrenda), o Pierna Torcida

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 720v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=519&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: 
"s" for x
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xonecuil (MH508r)

xonecuilli (Mdz16v)