Tlacochtemoc (Verg33v)

This compound Nahuatl hieroglyph is a black-line drawing of the personal name Tlacochtemoc (perhaps, “Lance Descended”). The elements of the compound include two front teeth (tlantli), representing the complementary Tla- syllable that starts the name. Above the teeth is the top of a tlacochin, decorated with a wing feather and a down feather, providing the main semantic element of the name. Below the teeth is a stone (tetl), which provides the -te- syllable and the phonetic start to the suffix. Finally, below the stone are two alternating foodprints, referring to the descent (-temoc). Other very similar compound glyphs for a Francisco Tlacochte[m]oc appears on folio 35r and folio 37r.