Elotl (MH759r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Elotl is attested here as a man's name. It shows an upright corncob, kernels visible, and some silk remaining at the top. The husk has been removed.
Stephanie Wood
The term and name Xilotl is much more common than Elotl in this collection. Perhaps the name Xilotl, which refers to the corn cob when still forming kernels was more akin to a new baby (as a metaphor) than Elotl, which had already formed its kernels.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
maíz, elote, comida, nombres de hombres
elo(tl), fresh ear of corn with kernels formed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/elotl
xilo(tl), ear of corn with kernels still forming, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xilotl
Elote
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 759r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=596&st=image
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