Pinahuiz (Verg47v)

This compound Nahuatl hieroglyph is a black-line drawing of the personal name Pinahuiz (perhaps “Omen Bug,” earlier seen as Pinahuiztin, in the plural, and with a somewhat different compound hieroglyph, on folio 40 verso, and one coming on 50bis-verso). It is attested here again as a man’s name, and for a man whose first name is, once again, Pablo. The compound here has two elements, whereas it has three in the earlier example. The main element in both is the bird’s eye view of the bug that is called pinahuiztli, providing the logographic root of the name, Pinahuiz. But the bug is different as drawn in each glyph. Both bugs have a rounded back with black and white stripes. But this one has two raised “arms” with hands and four visible legs with feet. The back legs bend as though they had knees. Above the bug are four vertical, short, straight lines that represent the number four (nahui). This is a phonetic indicator that the middle of the name contains -nahui-. The other glyph has an added element of water, which this one ignores.