Cuaxolohua (MH762r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuaxolohua () is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile view of what looks like a dog’s head, facing toward the viewer’s right. It has a long snout and a bulbous nose. It seems to reference the xoloitzcuintli dog in order to point to the ancestor or deity, Xolotl. The possessive -hua suffix is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
The person with this name, plus the glyph and gloss appear to be scratched out by having black ink smeared over them. Perhaps he had died recently, and could not longer be counted.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
perros, fuerzas divinas, deidades, ancestros, nombres de hombres
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cua-, relating to the human head,
Xolotl, deity and/or ancestor-ruler, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Xolotl
xoloitzcuin(tli), a native Mexican nearly hairless dog, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xoloitzcuintli
xoloch(tic), wrinkled, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xolochtic
-hua (singular possessive suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
Tiene la Cabeza Como Xolotl
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 762r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=602&st=image
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