Tequicen (MH537v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tequicen (“Tribute Maize” or "Cut Maize," attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of an ear of corn (attested as both cintli and centli). The kernels form a pattern on the ear. The husk is gone; a short stem remains. The Tequi- start of the name may come from the way the ear of corn has been cut and cleaned of its silk and husk.
Stephanie Woo
agostin teq~ce
Agustín Tequicen
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
maize, corn ears, maíz, mazorcas, agricultura, trabajo, granos
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tequi, to cut, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequi
tequi(tl), work, labor, tribute, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequitl
cen(tli), ears of maize, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centli-0
Cortar-Mazorca
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 537v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=154&st=image
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