Tlaltecahua (MH499v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlaltecahua (here, attested as a man’s name or perhaps his ethnicity) shows a bird's eye view of a large, horizontal rectangular piece of land (tlalli) with subdivisions. The parcel involve two partitions, creating three strips. The middle strip has texturing, which may suggest cultivation. The glyph for land provides the phonetic start to the ethnic label Tlaltecahua (or, Tlaltecahuaque, in the plural). No other visuals enter into the other parts of the word.
Stephanie Wood
The Tlaltecahuaque are mentioned by Wimmer (2004), who is cited in the Gran Diccionario del Nahuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlaltecahuaque.
Stephanie Wood
domīgo
tlaltecahuā
Domingo Tlaltecahua (or Tlaltecahuan)
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
lands, tierras, etnicidades, ethnicities
tlal(li), land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
-teca, inhabitant of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl
-hua, possessio, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
Tlaltecahua
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 499v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=78&st=image
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