Anenecuilco (Mdz24v)

Anenecuilco (Mdz24v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for Anenecuilco involves a flow of water (atl) with a sharp bend. The word nenecuilli stands for something twisted, displaced, or dislocated, which appears to be represented visually by the bend in the water. Counting the bend and the water separately (although they overlap), the result is a compound glyph. The locative suffix -co is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Berdan and Anawalt (The Codex Mendoza, 1992, v. 1, p. 171) point to the verb nenecuiloa over the noun. The water here has some of the usual lines showing current, some of them thick black lines, and at the bend there is a swirl or whirlpool. Beyond the bend, the water disperses into five fingers, each with a turbinate shell or a droplet (or precious stone) at its tip.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

anenecuilco. puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Anenecuilco, pueblo (in the modern state of Morelos)

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
cuil (tracking)
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Names (places)
Shells
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black
blue (turquoise)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bent
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
spiky
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

water, river bend, turns, twists, something twisted,shells

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

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
nenecuil(li), something twisted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nenecuilli
nenecuiloa, to twist back and forth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nenecuiloa
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 24 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 59 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

atl (Mdz25r)