Tochcuahuitl (MH495v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tochcuahuitl (“Rabbit-Horns,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of a rabbit, looking toward the viewer's left. His coat is textured. He has one horn (cuacuahuitl)] coming out of the top of his head, seemingly a phonetic indicator of the type of rabbit (or better, animal) that this is, given that rabbits do not have horns. The horn is more like that of a unicorn, which may suggest European influence in the way it has been drawn.
Stephanie Wood
goçalo
tochguavitl
Gonzalo Tochcuahuitl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
animales, cuernos
toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
cuacuahue, a horned animal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuacuahue
cuahui(tl), wood, tree, stick, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl-1
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&st=image
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