Xico (MH483r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xico shows a bird's eye view of a bee (xicotli), with its striped body and wings, two dots for eyes, two antennae, and two forelegs.
Stephanie Wood
The gloss seems to have an intrusive "n" at the end of the name.
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Xico
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1560
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bees, abejas, insects, insectos
xico(tli), a large honeybee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xicotli
La Abeja
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&st=image.
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