Itencahual (MH577v)

Itencahual (MH577v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

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."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

matheo ytencaval

Gloss Normalization:

Mateo Itencahual

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Corn, Maize

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

facing right

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Number of Parts, Other / Comment:

This could be three elements if we count the food, the lips, and the proximity of the food to the man's head.

Keywords:

food, comida, leftovers, sobras, tortillas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tencahual(li), leftovers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tencahualli
i-, his-her-its, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Sus Sobras

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 577v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=234&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: