Moyotl (MH832r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Moyotl ("Mosquito") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a mosquito in profile, facing toward the right. The proboscis is especially long. The front legs are sticking out forward, the wings are striped, the visible eye is open, and two antennae are showing.
Stephanie Wood
There was a barrio named Moyotlan, and there are still people in Mexico today who have the name Moyotl (now a clear surname). Because, as a life-giving force--blood captured the imagination of Nahuas, this may have led to a somewhat special interest in mosquitos, which suck human blood. After sucking our blood, if the insect gets squished, that blood can be made more visible.
Stephanie Wood
anto moyotl
Antonio Moyotl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
nombres de hombres, zancudos, mosquitos, insectos
moyo(tl), mosquito, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/moyotl
Mosquito
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 832r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=738&st=image
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