Cihuaizte (MH569r)

Cihuaizte (MH569r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cihuaizte ("Woman's Fingernail," attested here as a man’s name) shows the head of a woman (cihuatl) shown in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Below that is a horizontal fingertip, shaded at the top, and with a large fingernail (iztetl) sticking out to the right. There may be a possessive pronoun (-i-) that became elided with the "i" at the start of iztetl.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This Nahua name is preceded in the gloss by a Christian first name (Toribio). He may have been named after Toribio de Benavente, also known as Motolinia ("One Who is Poor or Afflicted"). This was the first word he learned in Nahuatl, and he went on to learn the language well. He lived in the monastery in Huejotzingo. Doing a quick search for the name "Toribio" will produce an impressive result.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

toribio çiua yzte

Gloss Normalization: 

Toribio Cihuaizte

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Christian)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
profile view
horizontal
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

woman, women, mujeres, fingernails, uñas, nombres de hombres

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

cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
izte(tl), fingernail, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iztetl
i-, his-her-its, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Uña de Mujer

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 569r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=217&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: 

iztitl (Mdz16v)