Teci (MH626r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teci ("Aunt") is attested here as a man's name. It may come as a surprise to Western readers that this is a man's name, but the context shows how this glyph, which is the head of a woman, is attached to the head of the male tribute payer in the census. This glyph refers to an aged woman, given the lines on her face.
Stephanie Wood
In this database we are tracking men's names that have a female dimension. See this option under Cultural Content in the Advanced Search. Some examples are names with the "nen" syllable, which often seems to refer to female dolls. A couple of names refer to skirts (cueitl). There is also a considerable range of men's names that start with Cihua-.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
aunts, tías, family, familia, mujeres, nombres de hombres
teci, aunt or great aunt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teci-0
ci(tli), grandmother or aunt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/citli
Tía, o Tía Abuela
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 626r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=334&st=image.
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