Xochiuicuic (MH835r)

Xochiuicuic (MH835r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochicuicuic (perhaps “He Gathered Flowers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a hand holding perhaps two different flowers (xochitl). This may indicate that someone has gathered flowers, reflecting the verb xochicuicui. The unreduplicated cui means ”to take,” which the hand can represent.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See other examples of Xochicuicuic below, along with one of Xochicuic, which has more to do with singing about flowers.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

fra^{co xochicuicuic}

Gloss Normalization:

Francisco Xochicuicuic

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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)

phrase or sentence

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

verb

preterit tense

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

flores, coger, cosechar, canciones, cantar, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuicui, to gather dispersed things, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicui
xochi(tl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cogió Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 835r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=744&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:

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: