Xochitleuh (MH644r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochitleuh (perhaps "Flower's Fire," attested here as a man's name) shows, on the left, an upright flower (xochitl) with a bulbous lower part and three small petals at the top. The flower also has a small base. To the right of the flower are about eight vertical lines, probably representing the flames of a fire (tletl).
Stephanie Wood
It is always interesting to see the name Hernando (first name of the leader of the invading expedition in 1519, Hernando Cortés) being given to a Nahua child. Perhaps the parents interpreted it as a powerful name. It is somewhat humorous that the -do ending of the name Hernando was written as -ton (diminutive).
Perhaps more Nahua children were given names of famous Indigenous leaders or religious figures of pre-contact times. Atonal, Citlalpopoca, Tecocohua or Tecocohuatl, and Quetzalcoatl are some examples.
Stephanie Wood
helnatō xochitleuh
Hernando Xochitleuh
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flores, fuegos, flamas, nombres de hombres
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
tle(tl), fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
Flor-Fuego
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 644r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=370&st=image
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