Cuicuil (MH647r)

Cuicuil (MH647r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuicuil (perhaps "A Painting") is attested here as a man's name. It features a rectangle with swirls inside and squiggles outside. It could be possible that the multiple swirls and squiggles provide a visual for the reduplication in the name (as shown in the gloss).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Is this meant to be a cuilolli, perhaps a variant of ihcuilōlli, whose usual form is tlahcuilōlli, referring to a piece of writing or a painting, as noted in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary, citing A. Wimmer (2004). While the visual here suggests a painting, this may serve as a phonetic indicator for the name Cuicuil in the sense of pocked, freckled, or the like, if we note the same name from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco from folio 526 verso (below).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

cuicuil

Gloss Normalization: 

Cuicuil

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Writing, Literacy
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
rectangular
curving, curvy, curved
boxed in
frontal view
Keywords: 

pintar, girar, remolino, curvilíneo, curvo, escribir, papel, nombres de hombres

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 or spotted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicuiltic
cuilol(li), a painting, patterns, or designs, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuilolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pintura, o Pintado o Manchado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 647r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=376&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: 

Cuicuil (MH526v)

icuilolli (MH551r)

tlacuilolli (MH606v)

Tlacuilol (MH526r)

Cuicuil (MH901v)

Cuicuil (MH770v)