Ixtlilxochitl (MH521r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ixtlilxochitl has three principal components. On the right is a frontal view of a human eye (ixtli). The pupil and iris are black (tlilli). A line connects this eye to a flower (xochitl), on the left. The flower is tall and upright, it has a base and, at the top, it divides into three petals.
Stephanie Wood
Perhaps glossator inadvertently omitted an "l" in rendering the name, or we have misinterpreted the gloss by adding the "l" for -tlil- (black). The eye here is drawn in a European style. See the Nahua way of drawing and painting an eye (which doubles as a stellar eye), below. This compound of Ix + tlil + xochitl results in the famous name Ixtlilxochitl, not that the person with this name necessarily has a personal connection to the famous person. Many babies, often from distant altepetl, were given illustrious names, while probably having no personal genealogical connection to the original holder of the name.
Stephanie Wood
franco yxtlixochitl
Francisco Ixtlilxochitl
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood, José Aguayo-Barragán
eyes, ojos, black, color negro, flowers, flores, ixtlil , nombres de hombres
ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
tlil(li), black, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=121&st=image
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