Tlahuical (MH815v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlahuical (perhaps “Husband,” “Servant,” or “Someone Taken Somewhere Else”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Below this head are four U-shapes, perhaps a horse’s hoof prints. One of the definitions of tlahuicalli refers to something taken somewhere else. So perhaps the hoof prints–if that is what they are–are referring to that meaning as a semantic complement to the man’s head (which might still be read spouse or servant). It’s difficult to say for certain what the name means.
Stephanie Wood
For another example of horse hoof prints, please see the glyph for otli (road) from the Tierras collection in the Archivo General de la Nación (below).
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
criados, pajes, maridos, nombres de hombres
tlahuical(li), a husband, a servant, or something taken somewhere else, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuicalli
posiblemente, Marido, Criado, o Alguien Llevado a Otro Lugar
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 815v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=705&st=image.
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