Cuauhxilotl (Verg7r)

Cuauhxilotl (Verg7r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhxilotl (“Tropical Tree with Edible Fruit,” attested here as a man’s name) shows the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile, looking toward the viewer's left. The feathers on the eagle's neck and the back of its head are spiky. Above the eagle's head is an ear of corn (xilotl) in a frontal view. The cob is largely wrapped in its husk, with some kernels visible, and some silk shown coming off the top and curving toward the right.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This fully phonographic compound elicits the word cuauhxilotl, the tropical tree with edible fruit that gives the principal meaning for the name.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juan.cuauhxilotl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Cuauhxilotl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Vergara, Codex (Verg)

Date of Manuscript:

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

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)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

maize, maíz, eagles, águilas, feathers, plumas, nombres do hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauhxilo(tl), a tropical tree with edible fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhxilotl
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
xilo(tl), small, tender ear of green maize, before it solidifies, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xilotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Águila-Elote

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Codex Vergara, folio 7r, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f21.item

Image Source, Rights:

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Historical Contextualizing Image: