Cuauhnenemi (MH499v)

Cuauhnenemi (MH499v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhnenemi (“The Eagle Travels,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of two, alternating, descending footprints. They are going toward the viewer's lower right. The Cuauh- start to the name (which can mean Eagle or Tree/Wood) is not attested visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While the reference may be to an eagle, the footprints imply movement across or downward toward a landscape. Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tetepotztoca, totoco, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego
guauhnenemi

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Cuauhnenemi

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
visible movement
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Landscape Features
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Transportation, Travel, Roads
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
facing right
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

nenemi, to travel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nenemi
cuahui(tl), woods, trees, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl-1
cuauh(tli), eagles, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 499v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=78&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: