Xochipepena (MH626r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochipepena ("Chooses Flowers") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a flower (xochitl) with three petals and two anthers. A (right) hand is picking (choosing or gathering, pepena) the flower at its sepal.
Stephanie Wood
The term pepena has work associations relating to harvesting and gleaning. It also applies to elections (choosing a leader). See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary for examples of the term's usage.
antonio
xochipepena
Antonio Xochipepena
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flowers, recolectar, recoger flores, escoger flores, manos, hands
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
pepena, to choose, to gather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pepena
Recolector de Flores
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 626r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=334st=image.
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