Mizquipolcatl (MH729r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Mizquipolcatl (“Person from Mizquipolco”) is attested here are pertaining to a man. It shows a frontal view of a mesquite (mizquitl) tree. It seems to be drawn in a way that conveys it is large (-pol-). The -catl ending to the name (an affiliation suffix) is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
árboles mesquites, nombres de hombres
mizqui(tl), mesquite tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mizquitl
-pol, large, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pol
-catl (affiliation suffix), person of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
(una persona de Mizquipolco)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 729r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=536&st=image
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