Quiztli (MH661v)
This black-line drawing for the simplex glyph of the personal name Quiztli (perhaps "One Who Came Out" or “Emergent”) is attested here as a man’s name. It is much like the name Quizqui. It shows a man’s face in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. It may be that this face is coming out (for the verb, quiza) from a cave. A footprint below and to the left of the face is headed away from this cave, which can also suggest going out (quiza). Either way, the reading for the root, quiz-, is there and the verb seems to have been made into a noun.
The more typical name of this sort is Quizqui, perhaps "one who comes out" or "emerges."
Stephanie Wood
There are nouns that end in -quiztli, such as miquiztli and tianquiztli, but a simple noun “quiztli” has yet to be located. Perhaps it is the verb quiza made into a noun by adding the absolutive. This is what the visuals suggest, but they may consist of a phonetic indicator for a noun with a completely different meaning.
Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.
Stephanie Wood
Juoā. quiztli.
Juan Quiztli
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
cuevas, caras, huellas, caves, faces, footprints, movimiento, salir, nombres de hombres
quiza, to emerge, come out, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiza
quizqui, completed, separated, divided, or perhaps one who emerged or came out, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quizqui
-qui, one who does that thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui-1
posiblemente, Salida
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 661v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=403&st=image
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