Cuahuitecatl (MH689r)

Cuahuitecatl (MH689r)

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuahuitecatl (“Someone from Cuahuitlan”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a piece of wood (cuahuitl, wood or trees), which provides for the start of the place name. The mask of the wind deity (Ehecatl) appears above the stick of wood, and that serves as a phonetic indicator for the affiliation suffix -tecatl. This ethnicity and the associated place name (Cuahuitlan) are not to be confused with Cuauhtlan, as the latter is based on the word cuauhtli (eagle).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Ecatl is the most common spelling for Ehecatl in the glosses for glyphs that refer to the divine force of the wind. The reduplication does appear, but it is less common.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

alonso quahitecatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Alonso Cuahuitecatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-Wood

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 of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Religion (Indigenous)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Weather, Climate
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

viento, aire, aliento, madera, árboles, etnicidades, nombres de lugares, nombres de hombres

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

cuahui(tl), wood or tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl
eca(tl), air or breath, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl
Ehecatl, the divine force of the wind, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehecatl
-tecatl, affiliation suffix for someone from a town whose name ends in -tlan or -lan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Persona de Cuahuitlan

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 689r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=458&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

cuahuitl (MH609r)

cuahuitl (MH487r)

cuahuitl (Mdz5v)

Cuauhtlan (Mdz10v)

Cuauhtlan (Mdz13v)

Cuauhtlan (Mdz24v)