Teixil (MH788v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Teixil (perhaps, “He Stabbed People”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a left hand grasping a lance, which is pointed downward at an angle.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
lanzas, lanzada, estocada, nombres de hombres
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te- (non-specific human object prefix), people, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
ixili, to stab with a lance, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixili
Apuñaló a la Gente con una Lanza
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 788v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=651&st=image
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