Tlamaceuh (MH491r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlamaceuh (perhaps "Became Deserving" or "Penitent") consists of two hands (maitl), a right and a left, with palms together. They are shown in profile, facing toward the viewer's right.
Stephanie Wood
The verb tlamacehua means to do penance or to become deserving. Perhaps the hands (maitl) are put together in a gesture of humility or thanks associated with this verb. The hands also provide the phonetic value for the middle syllable, ma. The other syllables are not represented visually.
Stephanie Wood
pablo tlamaceuh
Pablo Tlamaceuh
Stephanie Wood
1560
José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood
hacer penetencia, ser merecido
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tlamacehua, to do penance or become deserving, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamacehua
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 491r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=61&st=image
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