Ami (MH661r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ami (“Hunt”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a bird’s eye view of swirling water and an arrow at an angle piercing the water. The gloss does not show the Nahua name, only his baptismal first name. But we know from the other example right below this one on the tribute list that this is the glyph for Ami. It is spelled out phonetically with the glyph for water (“a”) and the glyph for arrow (“mi”). The arrow also serves a semantic function, pointing to the verb "to hunt" (ami).
Stephanie Wood
martin
Martín
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flechas, agua, verbos, cazar, nombres de hombres
ami, to hunt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ami
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
mi(tl), arrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl
Cazar
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 661r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=402&st=image
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