Teuhcaxal (MH778v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teuhcaxal (perhaps "Lazy Dust,") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a swirling line of dust (teuhtli) particles. The laziness (if the glyph draws from the adjective caxaltic) would be difficult to detect without a motion picture, but perhaps the swirling of the dust was imagined to be slow. Alternately, the root may be teuhcatl (akin to Cloud Serpent, which might be represented by dust devil, i.e., swirling dust) plus sand (xalli).
Stephanie Wood
Whirlwinds are popular in Nahua glyphs. And we have a Teuhtli name that involves various swirls of dust (see below).
dieo teuhcaxal
Diego Teuhcaxal
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
polvo, remolino, nombres de hombres
teuh(tli), dust, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teuhtli
teuhca(tl), the name of a divine force akin to Mixcoatl (Cloud Serpent), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Teuhcatl
caxaltic, lazy, inconsistent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/caxaltic
xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 778v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=631&st=image
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