Apanecatl (MH504v)
This compound glyph for the personal name (or ethnic affiliation) Apanecatl (perhaps "Canal Person," or someone from a place called Apanco), is attested as a man's name or affiliation here. The name glyph includes two major elements a three-part stream of water (atl) with droplets and shells at the tips, and an upright, white, rectangular flag or banner (panitl) in a profile view, facing the viewer's right. The -ecatl part of the name (affiliation or ethnicity) is not shown visually.
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The banner serves a phonetic role, supplying the -pan- of apantli. The water alone could represent apantli, but the flag reinforces this particular reading for water.
There is a famous Apanecatl (also called Quetzalapanecatl) in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca whose name glyph is a beautiful feathered headdress. [See: Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/apanecatl/40798.] Our Online Nahuatl Dictionary mentions that Apanecatl was a teomama, one who carried deities on his back. This name is still known today in Mexico. One web page suggests that the name means "risk taker" (https://www.howtopronounce.com/apanecatl). This translation remains unverified in early manuscripts.
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apanecatl
Andrés Apanecatl
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1560
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nombres de hombres
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a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
pan(itl), flag, banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
apan(tli), waterway or canal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli
-ca(tl) (affiliation), person from, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
Apanecatl, a person's name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apanecatl
Persona del Canal (?)
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 504v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=88&st=image
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