Acuauh (MH661r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Acuauh (“Hawk”) is attested here as a man’s name. It features the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile looking toward the viewer’s right. Its beak is open, and the feathers on its head are spiky. Below the eagle is a bird’s eye view of some swirling water with two short streams falling below the swirl. Each short stream has a line of current (movement) and a droplet (concentric circles) at its tip.
Stephanie Wood
This compound seems to be fully phonographic, given that it stands for the noun acuauhtli, which is not literally a water-eagle, but rather a type of hawk.
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diego. acuauh.
Diego Acuauh
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
halcones, agua, águilas, pájaros, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas
acuauh(tli), a species of hawk, possibly the Crane Hawk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acuauhtli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
Halcón Grulla
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 661r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=402&st=image
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