Cuatzontli (MH536r)

Cuatzontli (MH536r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing represents the compound glyph for the personal name Cuatzotl (perhaps "Head of Hair," attested here as a man’s name). The glyph shows what may be a young man with rather tousled hair. The hair (tzontli) forms spikes along the perimeter of the head (-cua) the ways eagle (cuauhtli) feathers in the same place also looks. The appearance of an eagle (cuauhtli), if intentional, is phonetic complement to the cua-.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This name combines head (cua) plus hair (tzontli), but not in quite the same way as another Cuatzon glyph (see below), where a special lock comes off the top of the head. Below are other names starting with Cua-, too, and an example of an eagle with feathers that recall the shape of the hair on this glyph.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

paltasal quatzotl

Gloss Normalization:

Baltazar Cuatzotl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

emphasis/exaggeration (relative, intentional)

spiky

Keywords:

hair, cabello, cortar

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuatzon(tli), hair on the head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuatzontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Cabello a Punto de Ser Cortado (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 536r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=151&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: