Tlapalihuitl (MH509r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlapalihuitl (here, attested as a man's name), shows two upright feathers (ihuitl). Some extra lines appear at the bottom of the feathers. Tlapalli can refer to the color red, making this name "Red Feathers," but no color is shown.
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The first part of the name (tlapal-) can refer to side feathers, wing feathers. The noun atlapalli, can refer to a bird's wing. The presence of two feathers just might be a reference to a feather on the side (perhaps from centlapalli, on the side). If so, then this could be a compound glyph rather than a simplex.
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Juā
tlapalihuitl
Juan Tlapalihuitl
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1560
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feathers, plumas, dye, teñir, nombres de hombres
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ihui(tl), feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl
tlapal(li), to dye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapa
centlapal(li), on the side, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centlapalli
Plumas Coloradas
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 509r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=97&st=image
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