Tomiz (MH704v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tomiz (perhaps “He Will Come Unraveled,” or perhaps “Our Bones”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows what may be a vertical bone with three-part knobs or joints at both ends. This bone (omitl), if that is what it is, could be a phonetic indicator for part of the verb tomi. The future tense (-z) of the verb, however, is not indicated visually.
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Another possibility, perhaps, is that this is a possessed noun, tomi (our bones), with the addition of a “z” as a plural (owing to the influence of Spanish pluralization practices). There is an example, below, of the name Tomixiuh, which combines a bone with greenery.
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Juā tomiz
Juan Tomiz
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1560
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huesos, nombres de hombres
tomi, to become untied, unraveled, undone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tomi
omi(tl), a bone and sometimes a measure, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/omitl
to- (first person plural possessive pronoun), our, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783
posiblemente, Nuestros Huesos, o Él Se Desenredará
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 704v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=487&st=image.
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