Cuauhnecahual (MH619r) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Cuauhnecahual (MH619r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhnecahual (perhaps "Abandoned Eagle") is attested here as a man's name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā guauhnecaval

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Cuauhnecahual

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:

Syntax:

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

Keywords:

eagles, águilas, abandonados, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
Necahual, a name, "Abandoned One", https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/necahual
necahualiz(tli), a farewell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/necahualiztli
nencauh, "abandoned one", https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nencauh

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120), witnessed the personal name Necahual in censuses of the Cuernavaca region (1535–1545) and translated it "Abandoned Woman."

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Águila Abandonado

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 619r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=320st=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:

Huitznecahual (MH501r)