Cuauhtin (MH577r)

Cuauhtin (MH577r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtin (“Trees,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a tree trunk with roots showing. Coming up from this tree (cuauhuitl) trunk are three sprigs of amaranth (huauhtli) (with their short lines of horizontal foliage), which are there to serve as a phonetic indicator, aiding in the reading of the name as Cuauh- and not some other term for tree.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The plural suffix -tin is apparently imbedded in the presence of the three sprigs. The singular name Cuauh, with a glyph very similar to this one but only one sprig of huauhtli, can be seen for comparison below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā. guatin

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Cuauhtin

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: 
hua (from huauhtli, amaranth)
noun(s)
pluralization (visual or textual)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
tripartite
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
upward
Keywords: 

plants, plantas, los bledos, los árboles, troncos

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

huauh(tli), amaranth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huauhtli
cuahu(itl), tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Águila, El Árbol, o Los Bledos

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 577r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=233&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: 
See Also: 

Cuauh (MH577r)