Tlilhua (MH506r)
This painting of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlilhua ("Possessor of Black" or "Possessor of Black Ink," attested here as a man's name) shows a black shape something like a club on modern playing cards. It is upright and rounded, with something of a straight stem at its base.
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Since tlilli can mean black ink, the name may refer to a person who has black ink, perhaps a notary or scribe. In his blog from 2014 about naming patterns in the Morelos census of 1544, Magnus Pharao Hansen gives "owner" for names ending in -hua. For example, he translates Tochhua as Rabbit Owner. So this name could be translated as Ink Owner.
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1560
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black, negro, ink, tinta, nombres de hombres
tlil(li), black the color, or ink, or soot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlilli
-hua, possessor of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
Él Que Posee Tinta Negra
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 506r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=91&st=image
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