Huehuetzoncotl Ixpopoyotl (MH598r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huehuetzocotl Ixpopoyotl (perhaps “A Little Elder Blind Person”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a woman in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. She wears the hairstyle (neaxtlahualli) of the married woman, not the long straight hair of the maiden. But the woman’s head nevertheless seems to provide a near homophone for ixpopoyotl (a blind person) by suggesting ichpochtli (maiden). The other parts of the name are not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
augusti vevetzoncotl ixpopoyotl
Agustín Huehuetzocotl Ixpopoyotl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
mujeres, nombres de hombres
huehue, elder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehue
tzocotzin, a little thing, a bit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzocotzin
ixpopoyo(tl), a blind person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixpopoyotl
ichpoch(tli), an unmarried woman, a maiden, virgin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ichpochtli
posiblemente, Pequeño Viejo Ciego
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 598r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=275&st=image.
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