Itencahual (MH577v)
This black-line drawing of the complex glyph for the personal name Itencahual (“His Leftovers,” attested here as a man’s name) shows some (apparently leftover) food (tencahualli) attached to a man's lips (tentli}. The food looks something like a plate with a tortilla on it. The proximity of the food to the man may be a semantic indicator of the third person singular possessive pronoun (I-), "His."
Stephanie Wood
matheo ytencaval
Mateo Itencahual
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
This could be three elements if we count the food, the lips, and the proximity of the food to the man's head.
food, comida, leftovers, sobras, tortillas
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/ItencahualMH577vSmplxPerNamMale.png?itok=ppWo3Bzk)
tencahual(li), leftovers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tencahualli
i-, his-her-its, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i
Sus Sobras
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 577v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=234&st=image
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