Patlan (MH640r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Patlan ("He Flies") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a generic bird in flight. The verb would be patlani, to fly, which is apocopated here. The bird's beak is pointed downward and its wings are spread, showing it is in movement.
Stephanie Wood
patlā
Patlan
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
volador, volar, pájaro, bajando, nombres de hombres
patlani, to fly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/patlani
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 640r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=362&st=image.
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