Icnonemitl (MH503v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Icnonemitl (perhaps "One Who Lives Humbly," consists of two elements. One is a frontal view of a tiny face in the form of a circle with three dots for eyes and nose or mouth. The face could represent an orphan (icnotl) or other vulnerable person, covering the prefix icno- (sad or humble). Below this are shown two footprints in a bird's eye view. They are heading downwards. They seem to suggest the verb nemi, to live or to go about, covering the second half of the name, -nemitl. Nemini is a resident; might nemitl have a similar meaning, such as one who lives or goes about?
Stephanie Wood
The ending -nemi can also refer to someone who "lives like" the preceding noun, so in this case, someone who lives like an orphan or someone humble.
Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tetepotztoca, totoco, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.
Stephanie Wood
diego
ycnonemitl
Diego Icnonemitl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
orphans, huérfanos, humble, humilde, vive, vivir, ir
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icno-, humble, in a sad state, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icno
icno(tl), orphan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icnotl
nemi, to live; or, to walk, go about, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemi
-nemi, to live like one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemi-0
nemini, a resident, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemini
Él Que Vive Como Huérfano (?)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 503v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=86&st=image
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