Yaoxel (MH841r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yaoxel (perhaps “Divided Combatant”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two war shields that are identical in size and design (a visual plural). They both have white crosses on a black field, and they both have the head and front legs and feet of turtles (ayotl), poking out from underneath the tops of the shields. The turtles provide a phonetic complement to yaotl (in this context, combatant) implied by the war shields (normally called chimalli).
Stephanie Wood
The two shields provide the clue to the -xel ending to the name, given that this element refers to division, often into two or more pieces.
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peo yaoxel
Pedro Yaoxel
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
partir, dividir, repartir, compartir, guerra, escudos, nombres de hombres

yao(tl), combatant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
xel-, a root relating to dividing, dispensing, distributing, cutting up, dispersing, etc., https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xel
xelihui, to divide in two, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xelihui
xeloa, to divide, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xeloa
posiblemente, Combatiente Dividido
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 841r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=756&st=image.
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