Texochimati (MH525v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Texochimati (“He Knows Someone's Flowers,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a quincunx-shaped flower with a small circle at the center and four petals.
Stephanie Wood
The mati (to know) part of this name suggests that a special type of knowledge or wisdom could come into play in the translation of this name.
1560
Stephanie Wood
plantas, flores, verbos, gente, quincunxes
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te-, indef. personal prefix, people, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
xochi(tl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
mati, to know, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mati
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 525v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=130&st=image.
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