xo (MH569v)
This black-line drawing of a foot is an element that has been carved from the compound glyph Xocuicuitla. It represents syllable xo- (relating to feet). The compound shows this foot stepping in multiple (seven) pieces of excrement (cuitlatl, given in reduplication and dropping the absolutive ending, resulting in cuicuitla).
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This example of "xo," which comes from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (of 1560) is different from examples of "xo" from the Codex Mendoza (c. 1541), which are either portions of a leg that includes the foot or just footprints. See below. European influence has apparently brought the changes of shading (three-dimensionality) on the bottom of the foot, and a pant cuff above the foot. Most Nahua men were not wearing trousers with cuffs in 1541, but some of them were by 1560.
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1560
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foot, feet, pies, huellas
xo-, element with the sense of "foot" in many compounds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xo
(relacionado con el pie)
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 569v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=218&st=image.
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