Cuauhtecatl (MH727v)

Cuauhtecatl (MH727v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Cuauhtecatl (“Person from Cuauhtlan,” also spelled as Cuauhtla, today), is shown here as the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Its eye and beak are both open. At the top of its head are spiky, curving feathers, but at the neck are short vertical feathers. Below the eagle’s head is a horizontal bar. This may refer to the verb tequi (to cut), or perhaps the noun tequitl (work), either of which could serve as a phonetic indicator for the -tecatl affiliation suffix. See below for examples of tequi and tequit that involve black bars.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The place name associated with this ethnicity, Cuauhtla or Cuauhtlan, could refer to a place near some woods, but perhaps it would be Cuauhtitlan if woods and not eagles were the intention. At any rate, one of the examples in this collection for a place named Cuauhtlan (Mictlan Cuauhtlan) does show a tree (cuahuitl).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

phonetic possibilities

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Feathers

Gender (male)

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

águilas, monte, nombres de personas, etnicidades, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
-tecatl (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teca-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Cuauhtlan o Cuauhtla)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 727v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=533&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).

Orthography:

"q" for c

"u" for b or v

Historical Contextualizing Image: