Tenochi (MH706r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tenochi (perhaps “Prickly Pear”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a fruit (nochtli) that would have come from a prickly pear cactus plant (tenochtli). The fruit is covered with fourteen spines, and three leaves appear at the top of the fruit. Underneath the fruit is a rather standard sign for a stone (tetl), which provides a phonetic indicator that the name starts with Te-. The standard features of the stone are its curling ends, two tone (gray and white) coloring, and two diagonal stripes across its middle.