Cuicuilacatl (MH877r)

Cuicuilacatl (MH877r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuicuilacatl ("Painted Reed") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a frontal view of a vertical and segmented cane. There are two segments that have squiggly lines suggesting painting (from cuiloa, the verb, or cuilolli, a piece of writing or a painting). One large squiggle appears at the top. The two segments with painted designs may provide a visual reduplication to go with the reduplication seen in the gloss (Cuicuil-).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

It could be that the double "l" in the gloss is correct, and what is meant is cuicuil + tlacatl, in other words, a painted person or a painter. If so, then the reed serves as a phonetic indicator.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

cuicuillacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Cuicuilacatl

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)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Art, Design, Crafts, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

segmented

vertical, upright

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuicuiloa, to paint something many colors, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cu%C4%ABcu%C4%ABlo%C4%81
cuicuiltic, something painted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicuiltic
aca(tl), reed or cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Caña Pintada, o Persona Pintada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 877r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=826&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:

"ll" for l

Historical Contextualizing Image: