nenecuilli (Mdz24v)

nenecuilli (Mdz24v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for something bent or twisted (nenecuilli) stands for the place name, Anenecuilco. It shows a bend in a river or stream of water. The water is blue, with black lines of current, a swirl, and splashes with white water droplets/beads and white turbinate shells at the tips.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The bent thing in this context is a course of water. The noun nenecuilli comes from the verb, necuiloa, with an added reduplication of the first syllable.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Movement
Shells
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black
blue (sky blue)
blue (turquoise)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bent
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Keywords: 

bent, twisted, displaced, water, shells

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

nenecuil(li), something bent or twisted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nenecuilli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

twisted, displaced

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

algo torcido

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 24 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 59 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

Anenecuilco (Mdz24v)