Metzontetl (MH737v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Metzontetl (perhaps “Leg Hair-Stone”) is attested here as as a man’s name. It shows a horizontal stone (tetl) with the usual alternating dark and light stripes on a diagonal, plus curling ends. Above the stone is a maguey plant (metl). If this name really does refer to leg hair (metzontli), then these two elements are both phonetic indicators, and the -tzon- (from tzontli, hair) part of the name is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
piedras, magueyes, pelo, piernas, nombres de hombres
metzon(tli), leg hairs, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/metzontli
me(tl), maguey, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/metl
tzon(tli), hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
posiblemente, Pelos de las Piernas-Piedra
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 737v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=553&st=image
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