Cen Icuic (Verg10r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cen Icuic (“Entirely His Song,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a man's head in profile, looking toward the viewer's left. Coming out of his open mouth is a large, elaborate speech scroll. It is spiraling and has hash marks dividing it into segments. Just below the scroll and the man's chin is a glyph of a corn cob (centli or cintli) with the husk off and kernels visible. This is a phonetic indicator of the word for entirely ("cen").
Stephanie Wood
The cintli (or centli) here clearly shows a maize cob, but the other glyph in this collection for Cen Icuic has a cob that is a bit boxy.
juan. ceycuic
Juan Cen Icuic
Stephanie Wood
1539
Jeff Haskett-Wood
songs, canciones, cantar, sing, volutas, maíz, nombres de hombres
cen, entirely, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cen
cen(tli), maize cob, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centli-0
cuic(atl), song, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicatl
i-, (possessive pronoun)
Enteramente Su Canción
Codex Vergara, folio 10r, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f27.item.zoom
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