Acolpin (MH756r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Acolpin (perhaps, “Small Shoulder”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a human arm, bent at the elbow in about a forty-five degree angle, (right) hand raised. The focus seems to be the shoulder (acolli), and perhaps it is meant to appear small (pintic).
Stephanie Wood
Some personal names seem to comment on a physical aspect or appearance of the person or perhaps something else they resemble (perhaps as babies). The suffix -pin (perhaps meaning small) is found on other nouns in this collection, such as a face (ixtli) and a tamalli.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
hombros pequeños, nombres de hombres
acol(li), shoulder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acolli
pintic, small, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pintic
posiblemente, Hombro Pequeño
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 756r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=590&st=image
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