Cuauhtli Icuil (MH830r)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhtli Icuil (perhaps “Painted Eagle”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. Its beak is slightly open, making the hook especially notable. Added to the feathers on the neck of the eagle is a design with two horizontal lines and, below that, a row of dots. Below these designs are what appear to be four short streams of water. The design added to the eagle’s head may be a possessed design (with i- being the third person singular possessive pronoun) and -cuil- referring to painting or writing. Alternatively, the -icuil ending to the name (if an extra “i” was dropped) may come from the verb, icuiloa, shortened, and meaning written/painted or encoded. More research on this would be a benefit.