Cuapayan (MH732r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Cuapayan ("He Broke Heads"), is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows the head (cuaitl) of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer's left. He has long, unruly hair. Some short hairs stick straight up above his head, too. The head seems to be a phonetic indicator for the start of the name (Cua-). The -payan (broken) part of the name might be semantically indicated by the hair.
Stephanie Wood
pascual cuapaya.
Pascual Cuapayan
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
cabezas, quebrar, nombres de hombres
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cuapayana, to break things, such as hard soil, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuapayana
payana, to break things, such as dirt clods, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/payana
cua-, having to do with human heads, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua-0
cua(itl), the human head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuaitl
Quebró Cabezas
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 732r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=542&st=image
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