Xochipepena (MH812r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochipepena (perhaps “He Harvests Flowers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a flower with four visible petals, a tripartite base, a stem, and a single leaf. The fingers of a right hand hold onto the stem of the flower. The hand has selected or harvested (pepena) this flower (xochitl).
Stephanie Wood
The term pepena relates to harvesting and gleaning, as one chooses what to pick from a plant. It also applies to elections (choosing a leader). See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary for examples of the term's usage.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flores, escoger, cosechar, nombres de hombres
pepena, to choose or to harvest/pick, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pepena
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
posiblemente, Cosecha Flores
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 812r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=698&st=image.
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