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. The xonecuilli could refer to a staff that was a religious offering, a twisted leg, a type of cactus, or something "S-shaped." A xonecuilli could reference a constellation, citlalxonecuilli. See the larger discussion of xonecuilli in an article by Ian Mursell about special feasts in Mexicolore. Finally, xonecuillin refers to a maguey worm. See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary for further information about the term xonecuilli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text 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: 
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)