Cuauhtlapeuh (MH648r)
This drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtlapeuh (“Wooden Plow,” or “Wooden Hunting Trap”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a narrow diagonal rectangle with a volute at the upper tip. Perhaps this is a wooden (cuauh-) plow (to plow is tlapehua) or else a trap for hunting (tlapehualli is a trap). To the right of this is the head of an eagle, shown in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. Its eye is open, as is its beak, which is painted yellow.
Stephanie Wood
Apparently the eagle is playing a phonetic role in the glyph, providing the cuauh- stem for wood, which is a homophone. It seems to elicit a reading of “Wooden Plow.”
Stephanie Wood
Angustin quauhtlapeuh
Agustín Cuauhtlapeuh
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
animales, pájaros, águilas, madera, arar, tierras, tecnología, nombres de hombres
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
cuahui(tl), tree, wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl
tlapehua, to plow land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapehua
tlapehual(li), a trap for hunting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapehualli
Arado de Madera
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=378&st=image
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