Tlaltecatl (MH676r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlaltecatl (perhaps “Person of the Land” or “One from Tlallan”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows what looks like a plate of a granular substance. But the gloss would suggest the visual elements represent dirt or land (tlalli).
Stephanie Wood
The man with this name may have been named for the famous lord Tlatecatzin, who was, according to numerous sources, a poet/singer born in the fourteenth century in what is now a part of Puebla that was dominated by the Chichimecs of Tetzcoco. Tlaltecatzin was a predecessor of Nezahualcoyotl.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
tierra, parcelas, agricultura, nombres de hombres
tlal(li), land parcel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
tlallan, in or under the ground, or it could be a place name, Tlallan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlallan
-teca(tl), (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl
posiblemente, Uno de la Tierra, o Uno de Tlallan
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 676r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=432&st=image.
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