Centetl Ichil (MH742r)
This black-line drawing is the simplex glyph for the personal name Centetl Ichil or Centetlichil (“Her Chile is One” or “She Has Just One Chile”). It is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph is one upright chile pepper, with the stem at the top.
Stephanie Wood
If the decipherment is correct, this name would seem to suggest some level of poverty, such as food scarcity, or perhaps it is a metaphor for something else.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
chiles, números, posesivos, nombres de mujeres
cente(tl), one, a single one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centetl
chil(li), chile pepper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chilli
i- (third person singular possessive pronoun), his/her/its, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i
Su Único Chile
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 742r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=562&st=image
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