Tepalnemitl (MH524r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tepalnemitl ("He Goes Around with Others," attested here as a man's name) shows a bird's eye view of four footprints going different directions. The verb nemi (to go around) comes to mind, although the gloss shows it with the absolutive (-tl) suffix, as though it has become a noun.
is a noun that means "resident"; perhaps nemitl refers to someone who walks or goes about. The other part of the name, Tepal-, means in relation to another person.
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This name may intend something like "someone who goes around others" or "with others," perhaps a gregarious person or else someone who avoids other people--?
Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.
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peo tepalnemitl
Pedro Tepalnemitl
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1560
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walking, caminando, huella, huellas, footprint, footprints, nombres de hombres
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tepal nemi, one who lives with someone else, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepal-nemi
tepal, in relation to another person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepal
nemi, to go along, to go around, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemi
nemini, a resident, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemini
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 523r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=125&st=image.
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