Acuacuatl (MH877v)

Acuacuatl (MH877v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Acuacua (“Large Venomous Toad”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the face of a man in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. Coming out of his mouth are two squirts of water (atl), each one with a line of current down the middle, and one has a droplet or bead at the end.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The placement in the mouth intends cua (to bite or eat), and perhaps the two streams are a visual reduplication. Both elements are phonetic indicators (A + cua + cua) that are not meant literally but provide the name of a large, venomous toad (acuacua). See below for other examples of glyphs that include a cua element.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p^{o aquaquatl}

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Acuacuatl

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Health, Medicine

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

sapos, venenos, agua, tomar, beber, morder, comer, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

acuacua, venomous toad, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acuacua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Sapo Grande y Venenoso

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 877v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=827&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:

"q" for c

Historical Contextualizing Image: