Calihuitl (MH663r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Calihuitl (“House-Feathers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a white house in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. It has the typical T-shaped entryway of what are likely wooden beams. Connected to this house by a tethering line are two feathers.
Stephanie Wood
It is unclear whether this name has another meaning than the literal one.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
arquitectura, plumas, nombres de hombres
cal(li), house, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
ihui(tl), feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl
Casa-Plumas
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 663r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=406&st=image.
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