Cihuayec (MH742r)

Cihuayec (MH742r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cihuayec (perhaps “Woman-Good,” or clean, pure, virtuous, etc.) is attested here as a woman’s name. It shows the head of a women in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Her head sits on a horizontal, rectangular, foundation. The woman’s hair is a partial neaxtlahualli style, but the hair on the top of her head is rather more feathery. How the rectangle enters into the name has yet to be deciphered.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (female)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

nombres de mujeres, mujeres buenas, virtuosas

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

cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
yec(tli), good, clean, virtuous, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yectli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Mujer Buena

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 742r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=562&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
dropped "h"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cihuayollo (MH575v)

Cihuateotl (MH579r)