Huitzne (MH875r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huitzne is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a rectangle with minor details that may suggest is a woven petlatl (petate in contemporary Mexican Spanish). Above that is a volute, perhaps a speech scroll, perhaps representing language or a pleasant sound (nahuatl). How either of these elements represent the name Huitzne remains elusive. Perhaps they are a ritual device, something like a tlahuiztli (granted, the -huiz- here lacks the t), but tlahuiz- can be followed by -nene, as in the example below.
Stephanie Wood
Comparing this glyph to other glyphs for the name Huitzne does not bring forth any insights. The two shown below both feature thorns (huitztli) that were possibly used for bloodletting, a religious self-sacrificial act. Perhaps this name is an apocopated version of the name Huitznecahual, a famous lord. (See the dictionary link.)
Stephanie Wood
andres . huitzne
Andrés Huitzne
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
nombres de hombres

huitz(tli), thorn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
Huitznecahual, this was the name of a known Chalcan lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitznecahual
tlahuiz(tli), battle device, weapon, insignia, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuiztli
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 875r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=822&st=image.
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