Michteuh (MH529v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Michteuh (“Small Grilled Fish,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of a horizontal fish facing toward the viewer's left. The fish has three fins, a bifurcated tail, and its eye and mouth are open. Beneath this fish is a much smaller one, heading up toward the head of the larger fish.
Stephanie Wood
The name as glossed begins "Mix-" which would not suggest fish (Mich-), but rather clouds. So, if this name has nothing to do with fish, the fish are there as a phonetic indicator for clouds. But clouds are regularly visualized in other names, such as Mixcoatl.
Stephanie Wood
juā mixteuh
Juan Michteuh (?)
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
huevo, pez, peces, la cría
michteuh(tli), a small grilled fish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/michteuhtli
mich(in), fish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/michin
michte(tl), fish egg, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/michtetl
-teuh, in the manner of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teuh
"Pescado Asado"
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 529v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=138&st=image
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