Coanenemitl (MH857r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Coanenemitl (perhaps, “Roaming Serpent”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a snake (coatl) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. The serpent has one loop in the middle of its body, with its rattler hanging down. Its eye is open, its tongue is protruding, and the tongue is bifurcated. Some hatch marks appear on the snake’s back. The verb, nenemi (to go about) is represented by the addition of two legs with sharp claws onto the serpent.
Stephanie Wood
See a couple of examples of coatl and one involving the verb nenemi, below.
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
serpientes, víboras, culebras, movimiento, andar, nombres de hombres

nenemi, to go about, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nenemi
coa(tl), snake or serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
posiblemente, Serpiente Ambulante
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 857r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=786&st=image.
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