Huitzilatl (MH634r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Huitzilatl (perhaps "Hummingbird-Water") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a hummingbird (huitzilin) in profile, apparently flying toward the viewer's right. A stream of water (atl) shoots out from the bird's chest, at an angle, down and to the right. The stream of water has little splashes coming off the top and bottom. A thick, black line down the middle of the stream suggesting current or movement.
Stephanie Wood
vitzilatl
Huitzilatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
birds, pájaros, colibríes, hummingbirds, water, agua, nombres de hombres
huitzil(in), hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilin
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
Colibrí-Agua
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 634r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=350&st=image.
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