Tepalca (MH641r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or status, Tepalca ("One who Lives with Someone Else," attested here as a man's name) shows a man's head in profile, looking toward the viewer's left. A human hand appears, seemingly touching the cheek of the man.
Stephanie Wood
This glyph is reminiscent of the glyph, Techachanonoc (see below), which has a similar translation.
Perhaps the hand suggests that someone is taking care of this person, perhaps having taken him into their home.
Tepalca is found in the Vocabulario of Alonso de Molina (1571). The gloss here suggests that the name should end in "n," but that might be intrusive.
Stephanie Wood
tepalcā
Tepalca
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
afección, cuidar, vivir juntos, nombres de hombres
tepalca, one who lives in the house of someone else, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepalca
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 641r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=364&st=image.
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