Cuitlahua (MH904v)

Cuitlahua (MH904v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuitlahua (“He Has Excrement”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows four or five small curling piles of excrement. These are shaded for three dimensionality.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Gordon Whittaker believes the final “c” that is often added to this personal name is a mistake. For glyphs of the place name, please see below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p^o. cuitlava

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Cuitlahua

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Cleanliness, Orderliness, and their absence

Excretions (bodily, human or animal)

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Keywords:

cagada, caca, mierda, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Cuitlahua, a famous name, e.g., the second son of Axayacatzin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuitlahua
cuitla(tl), excrement, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuitlatl
-hua, singular possessive suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Excremento

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 904v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=881&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: