Cencual (MH658r)

Cencual (MH658r)
Compound Hieroglyph

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 vertical maize plant with an ear of corn (centli), which provides the cen- syllable at the start of the name. The corn cob has silk protruding from the top. At the plant’s base and curving upward to the left is a set of teeth, open wide, as though about to take a bite (cua), another phonetic indicator, this time a near homophone for -cual, to represent the word for cualli (good).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio. cegual

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Diego Cencual

Gloss/Text 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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
syllable: ce/cen/cem (from centli)
syllable: cua/cual/cuauh (from cua, to eat)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

maíz, bueno, serpiente, nombres de hombres

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

cencual(li), someone entirely good, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cencualli
cin(tli), dried ear of maize, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cintli
cual(li), good, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cualli
cua, to eat or bite, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Enteramente Bueno

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 658r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=396&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: 
"g" for c, q, or x
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cencual (MH535v)

Tecuacua (MH520r)

elotl (FCbk4f72r)