Tlaltetecuin (Verg12r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlaltetecuin (“Earth Stomper" or "Earth Pounder," attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of a bordered, rectangular piece of land (tlalli) divided into two parcels or segments. The segment on the left has one large round dot, and the one on the right has many small dots (suggesting cultivation). Above the rectangular land element are two horizontal stones, with their curling ends both upward and downward. Across the middle of each stone are parallel, wavy, horizontal lines. These stones (tetl) provide the phonetic value and visual reduplication for the "-tete-" part of the name, which is alphabetically reduplicated, as shown in the gloss. Tetecuini is a verb meaning to pound, which the stones support both phonetically and semantically.