Tepenahuacatl (MH733v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Tepenahuacatl (“One from Tepenahuac”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows three hills (tepetl) grouped together and, coming up from the hills, four (nahui) thick black lines. This is a phonetic indicator for the -nahuac locative suffix (near). The -catl (affiliation suffix) is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
This is the only use of nahui for nahuac so far in this collection (May 2024). More common are speech scrolls (nahuatl) for the -nahuac or -nahuacatl suffixes. See examples, below.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
cerros, montañas, cerca de, etnicidad, barrios, pueblos,nombres de lugares, nombres de hombres
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/TepenahuacatlMH733vCmpndPerNamMale.png?itok=x20bSp1m)
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
nahui, four, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahui
nahua, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahua
aca(tl), a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
(una persona de Tepenahuac)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 733v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=545&st=image
This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/TepenahuacatlMH733vContext.png)