Cuauhihuitzin (MH704r)

Cuauhihuitzin (MH704r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhihuitzin (“Eagle Feather” in the reverential) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a large upright eagle feather. It is dark gray with black spots. It has ten downy barbs, five on each side of the calamus.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See two additional examples of eagle feathers as personal names; neither of these other two is given in the reverential (with the -tzin suffix). They are also much lighter in color, with a significant amount of white. But they all feature downy barbs.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

aprosio quavivitzin

Gloss Normalization:

Ambrosio Cuauhihuitzin

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

gray

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

plumas, águlas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
ihui(tl), feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Pluma de Águila (en el reverencial)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 704r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=486&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).

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