Gallego (Osu27r)

This black-and-white line drawing features the compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the Spanish surname, Gallego. There are two elements. The first in a house or building (calli) with a curving arch to the entryway, two small windows and crenelation on the roof. At the entryway and below that are two black beans (etl). Both elements supply phonetic syllables. The -cal- provides the start to the name, Ca- or Cal- (i.e., Gal-, if one “l” was heard in the pronunciation of Gallego in the sixteenth century). The beans supply the -e- syllable that precedes the final -go (and the latter is not covered visually).