Amatec (MH836r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Amatec (“Paper Cutter”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows simply a white triangle in a frontal view. This intends the word for paper, amatl. Given that paper is typically shown as a rectangle, the hypotenuse of the triangle seems to be the cutting edge, referring to the -tec part of the name (from tecqui, cutter). But another glyph for Amatec does show a rectangular piece of paper.
Stephanie Wood
juā amatec
Juan Amatec
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
papeles, cortar, triángulos, oficios, nombres de hombres

ama(tl), paper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amatl
tequi, to cut, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequi
tecqui, cutter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecqui
Cortador de Papel
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 836r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=746&st=image.
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