Cahualoc (MH491v)

Cahualoc (MH491v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cahualoc shows the head of a man (in profile, facing toward the viewer's right) and next to this is a large, upright, open left hand in a frontal view.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The gloss points to a reading of someone left behind, employing the verb cahua, to leave, and the passive -lo, to be left. Perhaps the hand could add to the semantic value of leaving something, but the hand can also be a phonetic complement for the syllable "hua" (in cahua). Often the hand that intends the "hua" syllable, however, is grasping, as Lacadena (2008b, 42) points out.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro caballoc

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Cahualoc

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
hua (grasping hand)
verb
passive tense
preterit tense
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Keywords: 

dejar, leave, abandonar, verbo pasivo, passive verb

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

cahua, to leave, abandon, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cahua.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Abandonado

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 491r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=62&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).

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