Amiztlato (MH747r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Amiztlato (“Leader Among Hunters”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a profile view of the head of a mountain lion (miztli, and puma in Spanish) looking toward the viewer’s right. Water spews from its mouth much like words might, referring to the verb tlatoa (to speak).
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
One could count the water as both atl and tlatoa (or tlahtoa). If so, then there would be three parts.
cazadores, líderes, liderazgo, pumas, hablar, nombres de hombres
Amiztlato, a leader among hunters, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amiztlato
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
miz(tli), wildcat, mountain lion, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miztli
tlatoa or tlahtoa with the glottal stop, to speak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatoa-0
posiblemente, Líder entre Cazadores
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 747r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=572&st=image
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