Tehuilan (MH570v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tehuilan (perhaps "Stone Dragger," here attested as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a stone or rock (tetl) with (with the usual curling ends and diagonal lines). There is a rope hanging down from it and attached for dragging it (tlahuilana). But, if the tetl is a phonetic indicator, and the te- is the nonspecific human object prefix, referring to people in general, then perhaps the name Tehuilan is a compound that refers to (metaphorically?) pulling people along.
Stephanie Wood
This kind of activity might be likely to take place at a construction site or for moving heavy things to a construction site.
Stephanie Wood
diego tehuilla
Diego Tehuilan
Stephanie Wood
1560
stone, piedras, drag, arrastrar, nombres de hombres

huilana, to drag something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huilana
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
Arrastrador de Piedras
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 570v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=220&st=image.
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