Aocnel (MH817v)

Aocnel (MH817v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Aocnel (perhaps "Good for Nothing," attested here as a man's name) shows what may be a fruit or vegetable with curving stem on the top. It looks something like a pumpkin.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Aoc (an adverb) means no longer. Nel was originally short for nelli (an adjective), true, but James Lockhart explains that it became ubiquitous in particle combinations, losing the meaning of "true." See Lockhart's explanation in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary entry for canel.

Other Aocnel personal name glyphs in this collection (see below) sometimes have what appear to be cups with a stirring implement. Another has perhaps a pumpkin with a vine with leaves.

Orozco y Berra suggests a translation of "bueno para nada," good for nothing. See our Dictionary entry.

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Personality, Behavior
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

calabazas, plantas, inútil, bueno para nada, nombres de hombres

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

aoc, no longer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/aoc
nel(li), true, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nelli
aocnel, null, good for nothing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/aocnel

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

siblemente, Bueno Para Nada

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 817v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=709&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: 
intrusive "h" or "hu"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Aocnel (MH489r)

Aocnel (MH623r)

Aocnel (MH506v)