Acil (MH883r)

Acil (MH883r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Acil (“Nit”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile view of a person’s head, looking toward the viewer’s right. The hair consists of many tiny circles. These suggest nits (acilli or acilin).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While the name might seem unpleasant to modern sensibilities, it was possibly more of a reference to someone being little, like a nit. We do not have any other glyphs with which to compare this one, other than names of bugs, such as the sand flea (Xalacatl).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco açil

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Acil

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals: Misc.
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Health, Medicine
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: 

liendres, piojos, pelo, cabello, nombres de hombres

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

acil(li), the egg of a louse, a nit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Liendre

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 883r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=838&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: 
"çi" for ci
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xalacatl (MH643r)

Yacapich (MH660v)

Chipo (MH883r)