Acolhua (MH595r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Acolhua (“Person from Acolhuacan,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of a human arm bent at the elbow into an L-shape. At the top, at the site of the shoulder (acolli), water (atl) emerges. The -hua is either not shown visually or it is represented by the hand, given that a "grasping hand" can be interpreted as the hua syllabic phonogram. The water consists of three triangular streams, each one with a line of current (movement) down the middle and a droplet at the lower tip.
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The atl in this compound plays a phonetic reinforcing role; it is there to ensure the reading begins with A-.
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1560
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water, agua, shoulder, hombro, etnicidades, Acolhuacan, Tetzcoco
Acolhua, an ethnicity, a person from Acolhuacan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Acolhua
acol(li), shoulder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acolli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
El Acolhua
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 595r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=269&st=image.
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