Cuauhxilotl (MH797v)

Cuauhxilotl (MH797v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhxilotl (referring to a tropical, fruit-bearing tree) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in a profile view and a frontal view of an ear of corn or maize (xilotl). These are not literal, but rather they are both phonetic indicators for the name of the tree.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The term cuauhxilotl entered Spanish as cuajilote. One of the glyphs below may give an idea of the look of the tree and its fruit.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po guauhxillotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Cuauhxilotl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Corn, Maize
Feathers
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

árboles, frutas, comida, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cuauhxilo(tl), a tropical tree and its fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhxilotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cuajilote

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 797v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=669&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
"ll" for l
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cuauhxilotlan (RGTyM)