Coyometz (MH884r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Coyometz (“Coyote Leg”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of the leg animal’s coat is textured.
Stephanie Wood
See other examples (and vocabulary) for birds’ feet, below. Terms that include the element "metz" can refer to groin, hip, thigh, leg, foot, or even toes. See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary, searching Glyph Name "contains."
Stephanie Wood
aol coyometz
Alonso Coyometz
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
coyotes, piernas, patas, garras, nombres de hombres

coyo(tl), a coyote, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyotl
metz(tli), leg of a person or a animal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/metztli-0
Pierna de Coyote
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 884r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=840&st=image.
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