Incococauh (Verg39v)

This compound Nahuatl hieroglyph is a black-line drawing of the personal name Incococauh (“Their Means for Sustaining Life,” “Their Property,” or “Their Posessions”), attested here as a man’s name. The compound has four elements. One might start with the four chile peppers, coming out of a pot with their points upwards. These chiles provide for the -cococ- in the middle of the name. Then there are two pottery jugs (comitl), which can complement the peppers phonetically by representing -co- + -co-. The water (atl) provides the phonetic syllable -a-, part of the -cauh possessive suffix. The possessive prefix in- does not seem to be represented visually.