Temoc (MH653r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Temoc ("Descended") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a stone (tetl), which provides the phonetic start to the name Te-. This footprint also suggests either the verb temo or temoa. Just the footprints can be enough to evoke the name Temoc in other (simplex) glyphs.
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This man, whose Christian baptismal name is Toribio, may have been named after Toribio de Benavente, also known as Motolinia ("One Who is Poor or Afflicted"). This was the first word the friar learned in Nahuatl, and he went on to learn the language well. He lived in the monastery in Huejotzingo. Doing a quick search for the name "Toribio" will produce an impressive result.
Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.
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toribio temoc
Toribio Temoc
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
piedras, huellas, bajar, verbos, nombres de hombres
Temoc, a person’s name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temoc
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
temo, to descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temo
-c, preterit tense singular suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c-3
temoa, all descend, a general descent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temoa-0
Bajó
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 653r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=388&st=image
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