Moxelo (MH769v)
This black, white, and red drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Moxelo (perhaps “He Caused Division”) is attested here as a man's name. The sign is a small hatchet with a curved, probably wooden, handle and, tied onto it, a triangular red blade. The red may indicate copper. The verb xeloa, which is at the root of this name, refers to dividing, something semantically implied by the hatchet, which can split wood, for instance.
Stephanie Wood
baplo moxellō
Pablo Moxelo
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
dividido, cortado en dos, hacha, herramienta, nombres de hombres
xeloa, to divide, separate, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xeloa
moxeloani, one who causes division, disharmony, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/moxeloani
posiblemete, Causó División
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 769v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=613&st=image
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