Cuauhtepotzo (MH545r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Cuauhtepotzo (perhaps “Pole Latch" or "Lock, is attested here as a man’s name. It shows an eagle (cuauhtli) in flight, wings raised, going toward the reader's left. The eagle has its head turned backward, however, looking at it large rounded back, which serves to indicate the word hunchback (tepotzotli). These may be phonetic indicators for the term cuauhtepotzotli, which refers to a latch or lock on a pole.
juāquauhtepotzo
Juan Cuauhtepotzo
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
curcunchos, jorobados, águilas
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
tepotzo(tli), a hunchback, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepotzotli
cuauhtepotzo(tli), a lock or a latch for a post, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtepotzotli
cuahui(tl), tree, wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl
El Águila Jorobada o Curcuncha
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 545r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=169&st=image
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