Cuapopoca (MH638r)

Cuapopoca (MH638r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuapopoca, or perhaps Cuauhpopoca ("Eagle-Smokes"), is attested here as a man's name. It shows the head of an eagle in profile, its eye and beak open. Its head is white and its neck feathers are dark. Above its head are a number of volutes indicative of the verb popoca, to smoke. These scrolls rise and head both to the left and right.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

guapopoca

Gloss Normalization:

Cuapopoca

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie 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)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Feathers

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

volute(s)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

birds, pájaros, águilas, eagles, feathers, plumas, smoke, humo, humear, verbo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cua-, having to do with the head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua-0
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
popoca, to smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 638r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=358st=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: