Tlacochin (MH763v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlacochin (perhaps “Spear”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two possible spears, upright with fletching at the top but lacking their points at the bottom. They appear to be tied together with a twisted cord or rope.
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A man named Tlacochintzin (with the reverential suffix) was a principal merchant in the time of Moquiuixtzin in Tlatelolco (central Mexico, sixteenth century).
[See: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1959), 2.] See the bundling of a group of tlacochtli (or tlacochin) below, in the glyph from folio 631 verso. Sometimes a group of tlacochtli will also appear crossed (also below).
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toro tlacochin
Toribio Tlacochin
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flechas, lanzas, plumas, soga, cuerda, cordón, nombres de hombres
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tlacoch(tli), a projectile, such as an arrow or spear, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtli
Tlacochin, famous person's name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochin
posiblemente, Lanza
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 763v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=605&st=image
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