Cuezcon (MH676r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuezcon ("Granary") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a tall grain storage container (cuezcomatl) sitting on a structure, perhaps wooden. These structures usually contained corn. The exterior seems to be thatched.
Stephanie Wood
The apocopation of cuezcomatl leaves cuezcon-, dropping away the final "a" plus the absolutive. The dropping of an absolutive is not unusual in personal names, and the change from "m" to "n" at the end of a noun root is not unusual. For instance, cuemitl (agricultural row) goes to cuen- in cuentlan. Or quemitl (ritual bib) goes to -quen in xochiquen.
domingo cuezcō
Domingo Cuezcon
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
corn, maize, maíz, almacenes, almacenamiento, granarios, nombres de hombres
This example of a cuezcomatl (maize storage structure) is found in the modern state of Morelos, Mexico. It was published to Wikimedia Commons, from Turismo Temoac. The name for this structure in contemporary Mexican Spanish is cuexcomate (unnecessarily, with the "x" replacing the "z").
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cuezcoma(tl), corncrib, maize storage structure, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuezcomatl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 676r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=432&st=image
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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