Cuauhchita (MH634r)

Cuauhchita (MH634r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhchita is attested here as a man's name. It shows the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Its visible eye and its beak are open. The feathers on its head are both curving and spiky. At the site of the eagle's neck is a bag (apparently intending the chitatli, although this is usually a net bag) with a tie below the top. The tie has been pulled somewhat, creating wrinkles (three-dimensionality), which is highlighted with vertical lines around the tie.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The eagle could be a phonetic indicator for wood, since they both have the same stem, cuauh-. But the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl includes a reference to a cuauhchito, a type of bird. Perhaps this bird is meant by the name Cuauhchita, and in the case of the cuauchito, it is really cuauchiton, a diminutive version. If this proves to be true, then the name is fully phonetic, with eagle and net bag working to bring forth the name of a bird, Cuauhchita.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

quauhchita

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Cuauhchita

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

tied, bound, or bundled

V-shapes, or wedge

wrinkles

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

bolsas, redes, águilas, tecnología, bags, nets, eagles, technology, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas, men's names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
chita(tli), net bag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chitatli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Bolsa de Red

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 634r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=350st=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

Historical Contextualizing Image: