cihuatl (MH607r)
This is a compound glyph of the noun cihuatl (woman), which doubles as the compound glyph for the personal name, Tetzauhcihuatl. The glyph shows the head of a woman (cihuatl) in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Her hairstyle (the neaxtlahualli) is a diagnostic for "woman." But on her cheek is also the phonetic syllable "hua," the two vertical black lines that are suggested by the verb huahuana, to make stripes, which has both a phonetic indication and a semantic reading (at times) for "woman."
Stephanie Wood
See some examples, below, of the hua phonetic syllable having taken on a semantic reading for "woman."
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
mujeres
cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
la mujer
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 607r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=296st=image.
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