Tizatemoc (MH619v)
This painting of the compound glyph for the personal name Tizatemoc (perhaps "Salt Descended") is attested here as a man's name. Awaiting further decipherment, it is difficult to say whether this is a compound or a simplex. The glyph has four parts. Three of them look like perhaps three bracelets of green stone beads, plus perhaps a necklace or a long string of green beads. Nothing is obviously tizatl (chalk), given its color. It may be that the longer string of beads (if that is what they are) is descending (from the verb, temo, to descend).
Stephanie Wood
po tiçatemoc
Pedro Tizatemoc
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
descend, descender, piernas, piezas de tiza, nombres de hombres
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tiza(tl), chalk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tizatl
temo, to descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temo
posiblemente, Tiza Descendió
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 619v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=321&st=image.
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