tetzon (FC10F32v)
This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the noun tetzon ("offspring"). A stone (tetl) provides the phonetic indicator for the start of the term, te-. It is a vertical stone with curling ends and diagonal stripes. Above the stone is a counter that means the number 400 (tzontli). This is also a phonetic indicator for the second part to the term, -tzon.
Stephanie Wood
The term for beard, tentzontli or tentzon, appears in various glyphs in this database. The two terms, beard (tentzontli) and offspring (tetzontli), are near homophones. Sometimes it is not clear whether a bearded man might really be intended to refer to offspring.
tetzon:
tetzon
Stephanie Wood
1577
Jeff Haskett-Wood
offspring, familia, hijos, niños, hijas, niñas
tetzon, offspring, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetzon
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_10615?/sp=40&st=image
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