Centetlichil (MH742r)

Centetlichil (MH742r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing is the simplex glyph for the personal name Centetlichil or Centetl Ichil (perhaps “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.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

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.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

numbers

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

Keywords:

chiles, números, posesivos, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Su Único Chile

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 742r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=562&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).

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