Tequitzalan (MH492v)
This black-line drawing of the compound personal name Tequitzalan has two prominent parts. One is an object that consists of two circles or round balls. Between {-tzalan) them are black lines that just might refer to the action "to cut" (tequi
Stephanie Wood
One might rather expect an obsidian blade or flint knife to be making the cut. See an example of the verb tequi, below.
pedro teq~tzallā
Pedro Tequitzalan
Stephanie Wood
1560
cut, cortar, between, entre, en medio
tequi, to cut, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequi
-tzalan, between, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzalan
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library.
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