Xocuicuitla (MH569v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xocuicuitla (“Foot [in] Excrement,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a human foot in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The foot has shading along the bottom edge, giving it a three-dimensionality. What may be the bottom of a pant leg appears above the foot (although long pants were rare for Indigenous men). Underneath the foot are about seven small round shapes that are apparently there to convey the idea of excrement.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood
caca, mierda, pisar, pie, step, stand, waste, excrement, excretions, excreción, excreciones, pantalones, trousers
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xo-, foot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xo
cuitla(tl), excrement, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuitlatl
Pisar en Mierda (?)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 569v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=218&st=image.
This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).
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