Cuauhcoyotl (MH897r)

Cuauhcoyotl (MH897r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhcoyotl (literally, “Eagle-Coyote”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of what might be called a hybrid animal. It is shown in profile, facing the viewer’s right. The front of the head is a coyote (coyotl), and the back shows the spiky tufts of feathers of the head of an eagle (cuauhtli). The coat of the coyote has some gray patches.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This name also appears in the Códice de Santa María Asunción, in the edition of 1997 by Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

martin quauhcoyotl

Gloss Normalization:

Martín Cuauhcoyotl

Gloss 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: Misc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

shading and parallel line hatching

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

coyotes, águilas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
coyo(tl), coyote, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyotl
Cuauhcoyotl, a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhcoyotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

literalmente, Águila-Coyote

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 897r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=866&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

Historical Contextualizing Image: