Tlatolehua (MH613v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlatolehua ("He is a Witness") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph incorporates the head of the tribute payer in the census. A small line comes from the man's mouth in a way that is suggestive of emerging words (tlatolli). This line connect to a bird's eye view of an animal hide (ehuatl). The hide is splayed and it still contains the animal fur. The hide which provides the phonetic indicator for -ehua, a verb. The combination of tlatol- and -ehua, tlatolehua, is a verb that means "to be a witness."
Stephanie Wood
atonio tlatoleua
Antonio Tlatolehua
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
testigos, witnesses, speech, hablar, pieles, skins, hides, nombres de hombres
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tlatolehua, to be a witness, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolehua
tlatol(li), word, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolli
ehua(tl), skin-hide, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehuatl
ehua, to rise and depart, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehua
El Testigo
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 613v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=309&st=image.
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