Mizquipolco (MH729r)

Mizquipolco (MH729r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Mizquipolco ("At the Large Mesquite Tree") shows a frontal view of a white building or house, where the entrance is lined with (probably wooden) beams. The beams are white, too, except there is a black square at the base of each vertical beam. The building provides a semantic locative for the suffix -co, in or at. Below the house but partially contained by the entrance is a mesquite (mizquitl) tree. It may be a large (-pol-) tree.

Description, 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:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

roots are visible

rectangular

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

árboles mesquites, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

mizqui(tl), mesquite tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mizquitl
-pol, large or wretched, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pol
-co (locative suffix), in or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

árboles mesquites, nombres de lugares

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 729r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=536&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).

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