Teuhquiyauh (MH666v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teuhquiyauh (perhaps “Dusty Rain”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of three short signs for rain (quiyahuitl)–triangles with their points down and a line of current running through the middle, seemingly to suggest movement. At the tip of the middle stream is a droplet with a dot in the middle, like a bead. To the left and to the right of these bits of streaming rain are squiggly lines that must intend to illustrate dust (teuhtli).
Stephanie Wood
Perhaps this name points to a type of rain that causes dust to rise up into the air.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
lluvia, polvo, nombres de hombres
teuh(tli), dust, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teuhtli
quiyahu(itl), rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl
Lluvia Polvorienta
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 666v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=413&st=image.
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