Ayapan (MH745r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Ayapan (perhaps “On the Cloak”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. It is a rectangular, vertical flag on a post. On its lower half, the banner has a mesh, which suggests it is a piece of fabric called ayatl, which has a loose weave of natural fiber. The top half of the banner has three little streams of water (atl), which is a phonetic indicator that this probable place name (identifying the ethnicity of the man) starts with A-.
Stephanie Wood
Usually, someone from Ayapan would be referred to as an Ayapanecatl. Perhaps this name is simply apocopated. Alternatively, Ayapan refers to a perennial plant, so this could be the meaning of the name, and if so, the compound would be fully phonographic.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
banderas, capas, telas, textiles, agua, ayates, nombres de hombres, nombres de lugares, etnicidad, pueblos
aya(tl), cloak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatl
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
-pan (locative suffix), on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
“En la Capa” or “En la Manta”
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 745r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=568&st=image
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