Tlahuical (MH669v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlahuical (perhaps “Taken Elsewhere”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a set of teeth (tlantli) that serve a phonetic role for the start of the name, Tla-. Above the teeth appears what may be part of an agricultural tool called the huictli, serving as a phonetic indicator for the -huic- part of the name. A third visual element is a cord or rope (mecatl), but it does not play a phonetic role in the name. Rather, it may have a semantic role, having helped take “something elsewhere” (tlahuicalli).