Cencual (MH658r)

Cencual (MH658r)
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 vertical maize plant with an ear of corn. The corn cob has silk protruding from the top. At the plant’s base and curving upward to the left is an unidentified, segmented object–perhaps a serpent (coatl), as a phonetic indicator for -cual, or perhaps a branch (cuauh-)? Whatever it is, this object seems intended to represent the word for cualli (good), but as a phonogram.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio. cegual

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Cencual

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
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
coa(tl), snake or serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl

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)