Maxochitl (MH877r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Maxochitli (perhaps “Hand-held Flowers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bouquet of three flowers that seem to be wrapped, tied in the middle, and have some stems or roots hanging loose at the bottom.
Stephanie Wood
Hand-held flower arrangements were primarily used for dancing, judging from iconographic examples of dancers. See two other Maxochitl glyphs below. (Note how this gloss adds as “i” to the end of Maxochitl, which could be a variant or an error.
Stephanie Wood
matheo maxochitli
Mateo Maxochitli
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flores, manos, nombres de hombres

ma(itl), hand or arm, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
literalmente, Mano-Flores
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 877r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=826&st=image.
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