Coazacatl (MH897r)

Coazacatl (MH897r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Coazacatl (literally, “Snake-Grass”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a vertical zacate plant with one straight stalk and three curving leaves. At the top is a cluster of smaller blades or a blossom. At the bottom is the head of a snake going straight downward. The snake has small spots, and its protruding tongue is bifurcated.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The personal name Coazacatl is also found in the Testaments of Culhuacan.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

toribio covaçacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Toribio Coazacatl

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:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Reptiles

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Tongue Protruding/Noticeable

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bifurcated

dotted, granular, textured

facing downward

frontal view

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

serpientes, hierbas, paja, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

coa(tl), snake or serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
zaca(tl), grasses, weeds, hay, straw https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

literalmente, Serpiente-Zacate

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 897r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=866&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:

"ç" for z or tz

"v" for u, uh, or hu

intrusive "h" or "hu"

Historical Contextualizing Image: