Icnocihuatl (Verg9r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or status of Icnocihuatl (“Widow,” attested here as a woman’s name) shows the head of a woman (cihuatl) in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. She has tears on her cheeks (drawn more in a European style than the tears found in early manuscripts). These tears are a semantic indicator that the woman is a widow (icnocihuatl) and therefore sad or humble (icno-, a built-in adjective here). The remaining four elements of this compound probably attempt to provide phonetic values for some of the syllables. From right to left, these are: lips (tentli), teeth (tlantli), a maize cob (cintli) or centli), and finally an arrow (mitl). Of these, the "ci" of cintli could provide the phonetic start to cihuatl. The roles of the other elements remain to be deciphered.