Mecahuan (MH502r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mecahuan ("He Who Has Ropes," attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of three, upright, parallel, twisted cords that curve slightly to the right.
Stephanie Wood
As found in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary (link provided below), the mecatl could also be a whip, a noose, a unit of measure for land, and a term for a consort. .
Juan
mecahuā
Juan Mecahuan
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
ropes, cords, sogas, cuerdas, nooses, lazos
meca(tl), rope, cord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mecatl
huan, plural possession, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huan-1
Él Que Posee Cuerdas
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 502r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=83&st=image
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