Huitzne (MH626v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Huitzne is attested here as a man's name. The first part of the name, Huitz-, is covered by the thorn element (huitztli). This thorn is a triangle with the point upward. The upper half is black, and the lower half is white. Perhaps the dark color, which can be red in glyphs that are in color, represents blood, given that the thorn was an implement for ritual bloodletting. Underneath the thorn is a little head-like shape with two eyes, a nose, and two squared-off horn-like protrusions on the top of the head. This sign represents nenetl (deity images, doll, or women's genetals), which can provide either a phonetic "-ne" or "-nen." The gloss reads -ne, but the meaning is obscure here.
Stephanie Wood
Perhaps the name Huitzne could be an apocopation for Huitznecahual, the name of a famous Chalcan lord. Or perhaps the gloss has an inadvertently dropped "n," and the name should be Huitznen. But the interpretation of Huitznen is also elusive.
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Pedro Huitzne
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
thorns, espinas, blood, sangre, dolls, muñecas, deidades, deities, statuettes, statues, escuturas, ixiptla, gender, género, nombres de hombres
huitz(tli), thorn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
Huitznecahual, this was the name of a known Chalcan lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitznecahual
nene(tl), deity image, doll, or woman's genitals, Huitznecahual, this was the name of a known Chalcan lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nenetl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 626v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=335st=image.
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