Acuauh (MH661r)

Acuauh (MH661r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Acuauh (“Hawk”) is attested here as a man’s name. It features the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile looking toward the viewer’s right. Its beak is open, and the feathers on its head are spiky. Below the eagle is a bird’s eye view of some swirling water with two short streams falling below the swirl. Each short stream has a line of current (movement) and a droplet (concentric circles) at its tip.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This compound seems to be fully phonographic, given that it stands for the noun acuauhtli, which is not literally a water-eagle, but rather a type of hawk.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego. acuauh.

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Acuauh

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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
profile view
bird's eye view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

halcones, agua, águilas, pájaros, nombres de hombres

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

acuauh(tli), a species of hawk, possibly the Crane Hawk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acuauhtli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Halcón Grulla

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 661r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=402&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: 

Huacmitl (MH537v)