Challi (MH663r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Challi (“Jade” or “Introduced”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows what may be a tiny glyph of the type shown below for two other Challi glyphs, but also what may be some tesserae of green stone (chalchihuitl).
Stephanie Wood
If the person’s name is not meant to be jade/green stone, then perhaps these visuals are phonetic indicators for the verb chalia, to introduce or inaugurate.
Stephanie Wood
gregorio.challi
Gregorio Challi
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
jades, chalchihuites, nombres de hombres
chal(li), jade, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/challi
chalchihui(tl), jade, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchihuitl
Jade o Estrenado
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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