Tecocol (MH664r)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tococol (perhaps “A Hater”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two curling lines, one upright and another curling downward, both attached at a small rectangular base. These curling lines evoke the noun colli (something curling), which appears to be a phonetic indicator for the verb tecocolia (to abhor or hate), just as curling lines are employed for glyphs of the name Cocol. In lieu of curling lines, sometimes a person’s hair is being pulled for Cocol (“Quarrel”). The volutes that are connected as a base in this glyph for Tecocol are reminiscent of an element in the glyph for nahuatl (Mdz51r). If these are indeed speech scrolls, then perhaps what is being spoken are angry words.