Cuacual (MH613v)

Cuacual (MH613v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This drawing of the compound personal name Cuacual ("Eat Well"? or "Very Good"? if the reduplication is intentional) is attested as a man's name. It shows a man's head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. His teeth are notably visible, and something red and white appears to be going into his mouth. The object might have a white head and a segmented red body, something like a worm.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The object in the mouth vaguely resembles a penis (tepolli), but the gloss does not lead in that direction.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro guagual

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Cuacual

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)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Sexuality, Fertility
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
segmented
Keywords: 

bueno, comer

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

cua, to eat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua
cuacua, to gnaw on something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuacua
cual(li), good, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cualli
cencual(li), someone entirely good, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cencualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Muy Bueno

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 613r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=309st=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
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cencual (MH535v)

Tecuacua (MH520r)

cualli (MH613v)

ocuilin (Mdz65r)