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 or ropes (mecatl) that curve slightly to the right. The -huan ending to the name is a possessive indicator.
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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