Cencual (MH535v)

Cencual (MH535v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cencual (“Entirely Good,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view (facing right) of a human or animal face with its mouth wide open and teeth visible. It is about to eat or bite (cua) an ear of corn (centli). The small end of the corn is toward the mouth. The corn kernels are visible. The cheek of the face has some curving lines. The eye is open.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This compound glyph seems to comprise two phonograms that represent the word cencualli, something entirely good, rather than the literal reading of "maize-eat," which is actually not quite right, given the final "l." But cua and cual are near homophones.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

petro cequal

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Cencual

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Humor (potentially)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

entirely, completamente, good, bueno, comer, maíz, maize, corn, eat

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

cencual(li), someone entirely good, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cencualli
cen-, entirely, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cen
cual(li), good, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cualli-0
cen(tli), corn cobs, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centli-0
cempohual(li), twenty, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cempohualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Totalmente Bueno

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 535v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=150&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cuacual (MH613v)

Tecuacua (MH520r)

Cencual (MH658r)