Nenelihuitl (MH680r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Nenelihuitl (perhaps “Mixed Feathers” or “Something Mixed”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a nenetl doll or deity figurine in a frontal view. It has bare breasts and a skirt on. Perhaps this is meant to serve as a near homophone and therefore a phonetic indicator for Nenel- (perhaps meaning mixed). To the left and right of the figurine are volutes, two on each side, facing different ways. Perhaps these are meant to represent the -ihuitl part of the name, even though ilhuia (to speak, often represented by speech scrolls) is only a near homophone to ihuitl (feather). Finally, the term neneilhui, to be mixed, may simply have an added absolutive (-tl) here, intentionally transforming a verb into a noun.