Colicatl (MH580v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Colicatl (perhaps “Field Worker," attested here as a man’s name) shows a hook that curves to the right at the top. This curving line seems to provide the phonetics for Coli- (colli, bent). The suffix of affiliation (-catl) is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
The term colicatl can be found in Book 10 of the Florentine Codex, where it is left untranslated but appears in a discussion of wheat farming and people with tlalli and milli (agricultural fields). Perhaps field workers tend to become hunched over as a result of their back-breaking work in the fields, and this gives them the name of "bent."
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
curved, curva, curvo, bent, doblado, doblada, person, persona, peón, trabajadores de campo
Colicatl, a personal name, also perhaps a farmer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colicatl
col(li), bent, twisted, or curled thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
Un Trabajador de Campo
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 580v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=240&st=image
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