Zacapanecatl (MH745r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the person name or ethnicity, Zacapanecatl (“Person from Zacapan”), is attested here as referring to a man. It shows a tied bundle of hay (zacatl) that was often paid by way of tribute in kind to the Spanish overlords, who might use it as fodder for their horses. On the left, just above the horizontal tie, is emerging what appears to be a speech scroll. What this scroll provides for the rest of the name, whether the -pan or the -ecatl) remains to be deciphered.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
paja, foraje, heno, tributos, pueblos, etnicidad, afiliación, nombres de hombres
zaca(tl), hay or straw, fodder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
-pan (locative suffix), on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
-ecatl (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl-0
(una persona de Zacapan)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 745r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=568&st=image
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