Cuauhilacatzo (MH508v)

Cuauhilacatzo (MH508v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhilacatzo (perhaps "Log Juggler," attested here as a man's name) shows an undulating double line, something like a tipped-over, backward S. The visual reference seems to be to a cord that could wrap around something, associated with the verb ilacatzoa, to wrap around or entwine. This appears to serve as a phonetic indicator. The start of the word, however, refers to wood (cuahuitl) and the sport of juggling wood with one's feet, cuauhilacatzoa.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tezozomoc (1598) refers to the person who plays this sport as a cuahuilacatzo. (See the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl entry for the latter.)

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego
guahuilacatzō

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Cuahuilacatzo (or Cuauhilacatzo)

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Sports, Games, Leisure
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
Keywords: 

sports, deportes, wood, madera, cordón, nombres de hombres, ondulante

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cuauhilacatzoa, to play with logs using feet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuilacatzoa
cuahui(tl), tree, wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl
ilacatzoa, to wrap around, entwine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ilacatzoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Bailador del Palo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Tezozomoc 1598 (see above)

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 508v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=96&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: 
See Also: 

Huilacatl (MH528r)