Cuauhxico (MH737v)

Cuauhxico (MH737v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhxico (perhaps "Eagle-Bumblebee") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of a bee (xico), facing toward the viewer’s left. Below the bee is the head of an eagle (cuauhtli), with eye and beak open, and tufts of feathers on its head and neck.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

If this is not Eagle-Bee, it could be Forest-Bee, if the eagle is employed here as a phonetic indicator for Cuauh- in the sense of wood, stick, forest, etc. See below for some examples where cuauhtli (eagle) is shown as a parallel to reinforce cuahuitl (wood).

Added Analysis, 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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Gender (male)

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

facing left

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

águilas, bees, abejas, abejorros, jicotes, insects, insectos, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
xico(tli), large honey bee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xicotli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Águila-Abejorro, o Águila-Jicote

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 737v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=553&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

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: