Atle Icuauh (MH602v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Atle Icuauh (“He Has No Wood,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a human (right) hand holding two pieces of wood, probably firewood. The two pieces are crossed slightly. One of the pieces has some shading, giving it a three-dimensionality.
Stephanie Wood
Interestingly, the "atle" negative component of the name is not shown visually. The hand suggests possession, and not the lack of it.
Stephanie Wood
bartasal atle yquauh
Baltazar Atle Icuauh
Stephanie Wood
1560
wood, leña, madera, mano
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atle, nothing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atle
cuahui(tl), wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl
i-, (possessive pronoun), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i
No Tiene Leña
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 602v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=286&st=image.
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