Cihuamahuitl (MH490r)

Cihuamahuitl (MH490r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the glyph for the personal name Cihuamahuitl (perhaps "Woman-Honor"), attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows the head of a woman (cihua(t)) in profile and looking to the viewer's left. It is unclear, but she may have an expression of significance. If she is being shown as afraid, then this is a compound glyph with two elements instead of just the one.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The -mahuitl part of the name is not well attested in early Nahuatl. Ideally, it does mean "honor." What is clear is that this is a name that includes the female gender, and it is a name that was held by a man, which is a phenomenon that does occur in Nahua naming practices. It might not have any implications about the masculinity of the man who holds the name, because the name was probably given to him at birth.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

antonio çivamavitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Cihuamahuitl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Emotions
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing left
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

gender, género, mujer, mujeres, woman, women, fear, miedo, temor, nombres de hombres

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

cihua(tl)), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
mahui, to fear, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mahui
mahui(tl), honor, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mahuitl
mahuiz(tli), fear, respect, or someone worthy of respect, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mahuiztli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 490r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=59&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).

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