Cuacual (MH613v)
This drawing of the compound personal name Cuacual ("Eat Well"? or "Very Good"? if the reduplication is intentional) is attested as a man's name. It shows a man's head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. His teeth are notably visible, and something red and white appears to be going into his mouth. The object might have a white head and a segmented red body, something like a worm.
Stephanie Wood
The object in the mouth vaguely resembles a penis (tepolli), but the gloss does not lead in that direction.
Stephanie Wood
pedro guagual
Pedro Cuacual
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
bueno, comer, nombres de hombres
cua, to eat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua
cuacua, to gnaw on something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuacua
cual(li), good, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cualli
cencual(li), someone entirely good, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cencualli
Muy Bueno
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 613r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=309st=image.
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