Cuateconimon (MH779r)

Cuateconimon (MH779r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuateconimo (perhaps “His Son-in-Law Has a Big Head”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head (cua-) of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. On his head is a ceramic jug or pitcher (tecomitl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The jug (tecomitl) seems to have a semantic value with regard to the shape of the head, but it might also be considered as a phonetic contributor, for a disyllabogram -tecon-.

While the final “n” of the name’s ending (-imon) does not appear in the gloss, It has been added here in the guess that -imon might be the intention, referring to a son-in-law (montli) (with the added possessor).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

die^o quatecoimo

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Diego Cuateconimon

Gloss/Text 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

phonetic possibilities

Syntax:

phrase or sentence

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Measurements, Quantities

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Pottery, Earthenware

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

cerámica, jarras, cántaros, cabezas, familia, nombres de hombres, ollas, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecom(itl), a jug, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecomitl-1
cuatecoma(tl), a large head or an aquatic fly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuatecomatl
mon(tli), son-in-law, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/montli
-i (possessive, third person singular), his/her/its, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Su Yerno Tiene Una Cabeza Grande

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 779r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=632&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:

"q" for c

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: