Xalle (MH669r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xalle (“Possessor of Sand”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of a spiral of dots (probably sand, xalli) on the ground with two alternating footprints on the side (on the right side, from the viewer’s point of view). The footprints may refer to the person who possesses the sand, supporting the -e possessor suffix on the name.
Stephanie Wood
As an element in hieroglyphs, sand can take any number of shapes, filling spaces created by other elements in compounds. But, by itself, sand (xalli) is often give a round shape with many dots, or dots and small circles.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
arena, posesión, nombres de hombres
xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
-e (possessive suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/e
Poseedor de Arena
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 669r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=418&st=image.
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