Olin (MH834v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Olin ("Movement" or "Earthquake") is attested here as a man's name. It shows two brackets around two very small circles. Each bracket has a spiky exterior consisting of four triangles.
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Olin glyphs vary considerably, but they often have what appear to be brackets, something like a bird's eye view of a ball court that has rings where a ball would pass through. In fact, ball (olli) and movement (olin) have much in common, both orthographically and semantically. Olin glyphs typically have just one ball in the middle, provided as a phonetic complement. Olin glyphs can also have what look like wings of a butterfly. Very occasionally, an olin glyph will look like a spinning top (possibly a European introduction). See below.
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mīn oli
Martín Olin
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
movement, movimiento, earthquakes, terremotos, temblores, nombres de hombres
olin, movement, earthquake, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/olin
El Movimiento
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 834v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=743&st=image
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