Apanecatl (MH486v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Apanecatl (perhaps "Canal Person," attested here as a man's name) shows a three-part stream of water falling downward. Thick black lines suggest currents. The tips of the streams have droplets or beads. The water swirls slightly at the top.
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The gloss suggests a root of waterway [apantli in this name. There was a famous Apanecatl who was a deity-carrier. The name is still in used today in Mexico in the Sierra de Zongolica, Estado de Veracruz. See: Ezequiel Jiménez Romero, Santos Carvajal García, Ramon Tepole González, and Jorge Luis Hernández, "Apellidos Nahuas Vigentes," published to Facebook by Ernestina Lara Cuevas, 30 May 2020.
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andres apanecatl
Andrés Apanecatl
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1560
nombres de hombres
Apanecatl, a name of an important historical figure, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apanecatl
apantli, waterway, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli
-e, possessive suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/a
-catl, a suffix that indicates affiliation or ethnicity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 486v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=52&st=image.
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