Tecuanehuatl (MH673r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tecuanehuatl (“Wild Animal Hide”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of the hide (ehuatl) of a wild animal or beast (tecuani). The skin does not particularly look like a jaguar hide, hence the translation as “wild animal.” The skin includes the tail, but not the neck or head. The feet do appear, perhaps, to have some of their claws.
Stephanie Wood
Glyphs of what is called a tecuani can sometimes look like a jaguar–especially those in the Codex Mendoza–and sometimes not. But they all do appear to be wildcats of some type, with visible teeth and, often, protruding tongues.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
jaguares, bestias, animales silvestres, pellejas, cueros, pieles, nombres de hombres
tecuani, beast, wild animal, or jaguar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuani
ehua(tl), animal hide or skin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehuatl
Pelleja de Animal Silvestre, o Pelleja de Bestia Fiera, o Pelleja de Jaguar
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 673r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=426&st=image.
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