Cuauhquiyahuacatl (MH745v)

Cuauhquiyahuacatl (MH745v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or title, Cuauhquiyahuacatl (someone from Cuauhquiyahuac, or a title given to men distinguished in war), has two elements. There was a barrio in Tenochtitlan called Cuauhquiyahuac, which some call the Eagle’s Gate. The elements of this compound include the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. The head is located at the entryway or just outside (quiyahuac) a building. Thus, this compound is fully logographic.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic possibilities

title/office

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

War or Conflict

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

títulos, guerra, Águilas, entradas, afuera, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Cuauhquiyahuaca(tl), a title given to a man distinguished in war, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhquiyahuacatl
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
quiyahuac, outside a building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuac

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(un título, distinguido en guerra)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 745v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=569&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

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: