Cihuayollo (MH718v)

Cihuayollo (MH718v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cihuayollo (literally, “Women-Heart,” which Molina says is "effeminate" and "cowardly"), which is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a woman (cihuatl) in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. The diagnostic that says "woman" is her hairstyle (neaxtlahualli), where the hair is twisted up into points at about forehead level. Below this head is a frontal view of an upright heart. The heart has a stripe across the middle and curves along the top.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is one of many hieroglyphs for men's names that include references to women. The gendering of names in this way deserves further study. The advanced search option of cultural content has a field for “names (men’s but with a female dimension).”

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

rjuā. ciuayollo

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Cihuayollo

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
adjective
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

mujeres, corazones, nombres de hombres, cobardes, hombres femeninos

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

cihuayollo, effeminate and cowardly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuayollo
cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
yollo(tl), heart, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yollotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Afeminado y Cobarde

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 718v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=515&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: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cihuayollo (MH575v)