Teuhtlehuac (MH736r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teuhtlehuac (perhaps “Ashen”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows a frontal view of a stone, with alternating stripes of light and dark and curling ends. This stone provides the phonetic indication that the name starts with Te-. The meaning of the name has yet to be determined, but perhaps it is teuhtli (dust) in part. Another part could have to do with fire (tletl). The -huac ending is often adjectival.
Stephanie Wood
One will find words in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary for ash, such as nexti (or words with this root), along with an adjective, totozcatleton.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
polvo, polvoriento, suciedad, sucio, quemado, fuego, ceniza, nombres de hombres
teuh(tli), dust or filth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teuhtli
tle(tl), fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
-huac, an adjectival ending, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huac
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 736r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=550&st=image
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