Motecuhzoma (MH784r)
This black, white, and red drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Motecuhzoma is attested here as a man's name. The Mo- start to the name (a second-person possessive pronoun) is not shown visually. The -tecuh- part of the name is provided by the diadem, which is a triangular shape, has a black mesh and red trim that ties in the back of the head. The diadem has both a phonetic and a semantic value, standing for the term tecuhtli, lord.
Stephanie Wood
motecuhçoma
Motecuhzoma
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
gobernantes famosos, personas famosas, nombres de hombres, diademas, coronas
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mo-, possessive pronoun, your (singular), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mo
tecuh(tli), lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli
Motecuhzoma, name of a Mexican ruler, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/motecuhzoma
zoma, to frown in anger, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zoma
Su Feroz Señor
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 784r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=642&st=image
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