Chimalman (MH507v)

The jury is still out, but if the name ends in -man (the stem for -mani-, to be in the manner of) this would render a translation above, "She is Like a Shield." If the second part of her name is actually meant to be -ma, then some see a reference to the hand (maitl), and thus some translate her name as "Shield Bearer." But Chimalmama ("She Carries a Shield") also comes close to that translation, and the stem for mama (to carry) could be man-. Sometimes names are apocopated, dropping letters at the end.

Chimalman was the name of a famous woman who carried the accoutrements of divine forces, such as Huitzilopochtli, in the famous migration from Aztlan as portrayed in the Tira de la Peregrinación. (See: Angela Herren Rajagopalan, Portraying the Aztec Past, 2018, 29.) For Alfredo López Austin (The Myth of Quetzalcoatl, 2015, 150), Chimalman was a progenitor or mother worthy of note, related to the concept of mother earth. In the example here, from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, the name is being used by what may be a macehualli woman. She does not have a title by her name, such as the imported term, doña. So, she is a macehualli, what we would call a campesina in Spanish today.