Pocatl (MH518r)
This drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Pocatl (a somewhat rare noun for smoke) shows a series of curling black lines going up and out, in the direction of the viewer's right.
Stephanie Wood
While many smoke curls rise upward, these are almost horizontal, emerging something like speech scrolls.
Stephanie Wood
franco pocatl
Francisco Pocatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
smoke, humo, volutas, swirls
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poca(tl), smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pocatl
poc(tli), smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poctli
El Humo
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 518r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=115&st=image
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