Cuauhxilotl (Verg7r)
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.
Stephanie Wood
This fully phonographic compound elicits the word cuauhxilotl, the tropical tree with edible fruit that gives the principal meaning for the name.
Stephanie Wood
juan.cuauhxilotl
Juan Cuauhxilotl
Stephanie Wood
1539
Jeff Haskett-Wood
maize, maíz, eagles, águilas
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
Águila-Elote
Stephanie Wood
Codex Vergara, folio 7r, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f21.item
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