Cuapolol (MH521v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuapolol (attested here as a man’s name) shows a man's head (cua-) in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. On his head are five round objects, perhaps fruit. (Native cherries are from the capolin tree; while the root does not ring true here, it could be homophonic.) The verb cuapoloa, to smear something on one's head, could be at play here if there were a noun that came from it, cuapololli.
Stephanie Wood
There is a word, pololli, mud, such as the substance for making adobe bricks, that could have a relevance here. The construction of cuapolol is similar to cuapayan, which refers to breaking up dirt clods and preparing soil for planting.
Stephanie Wood
alo guapolol
Alonso Cuapolol
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood, José Aguayo-Barragán
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Cuapolol_MH521v_CmpndPersName.png?itok=vrp02s-O)
cua-, relating to the head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua-2
cuapoloa, to smear something on someone’s head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cu%C4%81p%C5%8Dlo%C4%81-0
polol(li), mud, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pololli
capol(in), a cherry-like fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/capolin
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=122&st=image
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).
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/Cuapolol_MH521v_Context.png)