Cencual (MH535v)
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.
Stephanie Wood
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.
Stephanie Wood
petro cequal
Pedro Cencual
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
entirely, completamente, good, bueno, comer, maíz, maize, corn, eat
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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
Totalmente Bueno
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 535v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=150&st=image
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