Huitzitl (MH638r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huitzitl ("Hummingbird") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a long pointed thorn (huitztli, a near homophone) or the beak of a hummingbird protruding from a man's chin. The actual tax payer's head has been given the added detail, not an extra head drawn just for creating glyph.
Stephanie Wood
Huitzitl, like huitzilin, means hummingbird. Perhaps the beak intentionally resembles a thorn (huitztli) as a way of providing some phonetic assurance that this person's name is huitztli. But this glyph is open to further interpretations.
Stephanie Wood
uitzitl
Huitzitl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
birds, pájaros, colibrí, colibríes, nombres de hombres
huitzi(tl), hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzitl
huitzil(in), hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilin
huitz(tli), thorn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
posiblemente, Colibrí
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 638r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=358&st=image.
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