Cihuanemitl (MH686v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cihuanemitl (perhaps “Woman-Goes-Around,” attested here as a man’s name) shows the head of a woman in profile, looking toward the viewer’s left. She wears the traditional hairstyle that has points of hair up by her forehead. She may have an earring, or perhaps there is a box where her ear would be, and maybe it has the double vertical lines of huahuana/cihua. Below this head three footprints appear to go in various directions, perhaps representing the verb nemi, to go around. In the name, an absolutive has been added to nemi, making it into a noun (nemitl).
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This is a man’s name but has a female dimension in its content. The significance of this remains to be researched. See another version of this name (Cihuanemi) below.
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Juā çiuanemitl
Juan Cihuanemitl
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1560
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nombres de hombres, mujeres, género, huellas
cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
nemi, to live, dwell, go around, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nemi
Mujer-Anda-Por-Allá
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 686v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=453&st=image.
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