Cantlamati (MH639r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cantlamati is attested here as a man's name. The visual is a right hand with its index finger pointing upward. The meaning of the name requires further investigation, the the hand (maitl) could at least serve as the phonetic indicator for the -ma- in the middle of the name.
Stephanie Wood
A pointing index finger can also be found in Nahua pictorials in association with people who have a voice, such as a tlatoani (ruler). To have knowledge would be fitting of a ruler, too.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
nombres de hombres
tlamati, to know something or to know magic, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamati
can-, where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-0
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 639r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=360st=image.
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