Tlamaca (MH777r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name and occupation Tlamaca ("Serves Food") is attested here as a man's name. It shows the head of a male in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. The only thing that separates this male from the typical tribute payer in this census is his haircut or hair style. Otherwise, there is nothing in the glyph about serving food.
Stephanie Wood
Tlamaca is a common name. Three men of this name, for example, appear in Congregaciones civiles de Tulancingo, eds. Jesús Ruvalcaba and Ariane Baroni (1994, 83). While it translates literally as provide food ("dar de comer" in some sources), perhaps it became equated with servant, similar to tetlacualti.
Stephanie Wood
franco. tlamaca
Francisco Tlamaca
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
sustentar, alimentar, dar de comer, servir, nombres de hombres
tlamaca, to serve or to feed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamaca
Servir o Alimentar
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 777r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=628&st=image
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