Cuauhchayahual (MH542v)

Cuauhchayahual (MH542v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhchayahual (“Wooden Gate,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a gate with four upright pieces of wood, and a crossbar at both top and bottom.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

loys quauhchayaval

Gloss Normalization: 

Luis Cuauhchayahual

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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
frontal view
rectangular
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cuauhchayahual(li), wooden gate, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhchayahualli
cuahui(tl), wood, tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl-1

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 542v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=164&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: