Tlaaquil (MH526v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlaaquil (“Filled Container,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bowl of something and three thin sticks also coming out of the bowl toward the back. The substance in the bowl is a group of squared pieces.
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The "tla-" at the start of the name is an indefinite, non-personal prefix. What follows, -aquil, may be related to the noun for red maize. If so, then perhaps the substance in this bowl is food. It does not have the shape of maize or corn kernels, however.
The repeating vowel (-aa-) in this name seems to be an inadvertent reduplication, and therefore, it probably does not have a visual reduplication.
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1560
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comida, food, bowls, jícaras, molcajetes
tlaaquil(li), something added to a container, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaaquilli
aquil(li), red maize, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/aquilli
aquilo(tl), a plant with leaves having a medicinal value, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/aquilotl
El Recipiente Lleno con Algo
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 526v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=132&st=image.
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