Osorio (MH735r)
The black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Osorio (a loan from Spanish) is attested here as held by a man. It shows a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. He seems to be wearing Spanish-style clothing. He is a figure very much in motion, with his arms and legs moving. Perhaps this glyph looks like a colonizer named Osorio. Otherwise, it is unclear how this is a glyph for a personal name.
Stephanie Wood
There was an encomendero (recipient of indigenous tributes in kind and in labor) and alcalde mayor (colonial official) of Taxco by the name of Pedro de Osorio [see Ian Jacobs, Indigenous Culture and Change in Guerrero, 2024, 235], but it is unclear for whom this Nahua elite was named. The glyph for de Gante (below) more clearly portrays the man for whom the Nahua–in that case–was named.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
nombres de españoles, nombres de hombres, influencia europea en nombres
Osorio
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 735r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=548&st=image
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