Cuapolol (MH521v)

Cuapolol (MH521v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

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.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

alo guapolol

Gloss Normalization: 

Alonso Cuapolol

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
homophony, rebus
phonetic dimensions
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood, José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

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

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=122&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: