Zacatl (MH719r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Zacatl (“Grass” or “Hay”), is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph looks like some kind of construction that might involve wooden posts, two vertical, one horizontal, and perhaps a triangular cloth hanging down in the middle, with point down. The sign looks much like the sign typically used for Tecpanecatl. What it has to do with zacatl (grasses, hay, fodder), remains to be seen.
Stephanie Wood
On this same page of the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, three different men with three different names each have this same glyph representing them. The annalist Chimalpahin uses Tecpanecatl in combination with tecuhtli (or teuhctli, lord), which suggests it is a title. See various other examples below, including a couple of other, similar glyphs that are also not specifically glossed Tecpanecatl.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
paja, heno, foraje, nombres de hombres
zaca(tl), grass, hay, fodder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
Paja
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 719r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=516&st=image
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