Huilan (MH888v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huilan is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the lower half of a man’s body sitting in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. The visible leg is extended out in front of the person, although the knee is bent slightly. The toes of the foot are upright. The belt of a loincloth appears at the man’s waist.
Stephanie Wood
The gloss suggests that perhaps the name derives from verb, huilana, to drag something or crawl on all fours. The person might be dragging his bottom along the floor or ground (not pictured here). If the individual is being dragged, this is not obvious for lack of another person or animal that would be dragging this one. The glyph for the name Tlahuilan, referencing the verb tlahuilana, to drag something, provides a different example, that of a wooden beam that would be dragged by a rope.
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
dragging, arrastrando, gateando, crawling, bebés, nombres de hombres
huilana, to drag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huilana
posiblemente, Arrastró
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 888v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=849&st=image.
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