Tetl Ihuicolol (MH519v)
This compound glyph for the personal name Tetl Ihuicolol (here, attested as a man’s name) shows a vertical stone (tetl) half colored in red. The stone has curling ends and diagonal stripes. The stone is positioned at the end of a curving handle (huicolotl) attached to a blade.
Stephanie Wood
The stone could possess the curved handle, hence the possessive pronoun, "i-." The dictionary refers to the huicolotl as the curved handle of a jar or jug, but the handle here obviously pertains to a tool, and if it is a stone handle, the definition of huicolotl is hereby nuanced. However, the final "l" on the name, which huicolotl would not provide, may well come from huicololli, ancestor, and if this is so, then the stone and handle are there as phonetic indicators. The name would then read "People's Ancestors." Somewhat less likely could be "His Ancestor is a Stone," a full sentence. Assistance with the translation would be appreciated.
Stephanie Wood
lurenço tetliuicolol
Lorenzo Tetl Ihuicolol
1560
Stephanie Wood
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
huicolo(tl), a curving handle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huicolotl
huicolol(li), ancestor, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huicololli
i-, possessive, third person singular, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i
coltic, curved, bent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coltic
col(li), something bent or twisted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1
coloa, to bend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coloa
Ancestros de la Gente (?)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 519v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=118&st=image
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