Calmecahua (MH643v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Calmecahua (perhaps "House With a Cord," attested here as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a standard house (calli) that has a twisted cord (mecatl) coming out from the entrance. The -hua (possessive singular) is not shown visually.
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The orthography used by this tlacuilo, who made two notable substitutions in the spelling of Cal-, probably had had considerable contact with written Spanish, more than most of the authors of this manuscript.
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luys garmecauā
Luis Calmecahua
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
meca(tl), cord or rope, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mecatl
calmecac, school, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calmecac
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 643v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=369&st=image
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