Calmecahua (MH643v)

This black-line drawing of the compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the personal name or title, Calmecahua, is attested here as pertaining to a man. Calmecahua was either a title that went with teuctli/tecuhtli (lord) in a place called Calmecahuacan, or perhaps this person was named after a man who wrote a history of Tlaxcala in 1548. The town Calmehuacan had a school, calmecac. The compound has two elements, a building in a frontal view and a rope. The building could be a house (calli) and serve as a phonetic indicator for the start of the name, Cal-. Or, it could be a logogram for calmecac, school. The twisted cord (mecatl) coming out from the entrance to the building is a phonetic indicator for the middle of the name (-meca-), a disyllabogram. The -hua (possessive singular) is not shown visually.