Coyolmaquiz (MH704v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Coyolmaquiz (perhaps “Bell Bracelet” or “Bell Arm Band”) is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph shows an upright bell with a loop at the top for attaching to clothing. The bell has four horizontal lines across its middle with a row of dots above and below these lines. The bottom of the bell has a slot for the sound to escape. The clapper is not shown. Below the bell is a hand (maitl), which serves as a phonetic indicator for the -maquiz element of the name.
Stephanie Wood
A maquiztli can be a metaphor for a baby, as seen in an example from the Florentine Codex that appears in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary. This is our first example of maquiztli in this collection, with nearly 6,000 records (December 2024). We do have a number of examples of the macuextli (beaded bracelet).
Stephanie Wood
maria cōyolmaquiz
María Coyolmaquiz
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
campanillas, campanas, campanas, pinjantes, pulseras, brazaletes, nombres de mujeres
maquiz(tli), a bracelet, a bangle, a wrist or armband, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maquiztli
coyol(li), a bell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyolli
posiblemente, Brazalete de Campanillas
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 704v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=487&st=image.
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