Cualanca (MH651r) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Cualanca (MH651r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cualanca is attested here as a man's name.

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:

Syntax:

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Keywords:

insectos, bichos, furia, enojo, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cualanca, angrily, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cualanca
cualanqui, someone angry, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cualanqui
cualan(tli), anger, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cualantli
cualac(tli), drooling, https://www.malinal.net/lexik/nahuatlCU.html#CUALANCA

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Furiosamente (o tal vez es un nombre de insecto)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 651r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=384&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image:

See Also:

Tocatl (MH629r)

Xaltocan (Mdz17v)

Chapol (MH519r)