Tecpatzincatl (MH759r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecpatzincatl is attested here as a man's name, an ethnicity (someone from Tecpatzinco), or a person associated with a revered tecpan (palace). The gloss suggests Tecpatzincatl, with a root of tecpatl, obsidian knife. But the imagery suggests stone (tetl) for the phonetic start to the name, and a building with wooden beam framing that could convey palace (tecpan), which seems to play a homophonic role here.
Stephanie Wood
luis.tecpatzincatl
Luis Tecpantzincatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
piedras, edificios, casas de cabildo, etnicidades, pueblos, arquitectura, nombres de hombres
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tecpa(tl), flint knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl
tecpan, governing palace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpan
-tzin (reverential suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzin
-catl (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
(una persona de Tecpatzinco)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 759r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=596&st=image
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