Cuauhchita (MH736r)

Cuauhchita (MH736r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhchita is attested here as as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a horizontal net back (chitatli) that is rounded on the ends. The net holds the head of an eagle (cuauhtli). These nets could be used for hunting, but that may be a coincidence here.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Cuauhchita is not an unusual name. See below for several more examples. The element of an eagle recurs. In one other example, however, a head (cua-) is employed to provide the phonetic start to the name. So, eagle might not be meant literally.

The eagle could also 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:

luys
gūhchita

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Luis 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:

Animals: Birds

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

frontal view

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

águilas, bolsas, redes, madera, tecnologia, bags, nets, eagles, technology

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle or hawk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
cuahui(tl), wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl
chita(tli), net carrying bag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chitatli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 736r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=550&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: