Quetzalxiuh (MH531v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Quetzalxiuh (“Quetzal-Turquoise [Tesserae],” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of three, curving, upright quetzalli (quetzal feathers). Below the feathers are five small rectangles of the sort typically employed to refer to turquoise (xihuitl) mosaic pieces or tesserae.
Stephanie Wood
These turquoise tesserae are often used as the glyph for the name Xiuhnel, but sometimes a foot ("xo"?) may be added as a phonetic complement.
Stephanie Wood
filipe queçalxiuh
Felipe Quetzalxiuh
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
feathers, plumas, quetzales, mosáicos, tesserae, turquesa, turquoise, pieces
quetzal(li), the feathers of the quetzal bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
xihui(tl), turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
Quetzal-Turquesa [para mosáicos]
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 531v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=142&st=image
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