Acaxochitla (Mdz31r)
This simplex glyph for the place name Acaxochitla (or, possibly Acaxochitlan) is a tuberous lobelia flower, ācaxōchitl), with luxurious red petals, a turquoise blue tip, and a green sepal.
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The word ācaxōchitl has two parts, ācatl), or reed, and xōchitl), flower. The flower is a bright red, somewhat reminiscent of the cardinal flower or the flower of the canna lily. It is possible that the place name once ended in -tlān, but the gloss just gives -tla[h], "place where there is an abundance of." [Frances Karttunen, "Critique of glyph catalogue in Berdan and Anawalt edition of Codex Mendoza," unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]
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acaxochitla. puo
Acaxochitlan, pueblo
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c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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flowers, lobelias, tuberous plants
ācaxōchi(tl), tuberous flower in the lobelia family, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acaxochitl
Acaxoch, a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acaxoch
āca(tl), reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
xōchi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
-tla[h] (locative suffix; place where thing is abundant), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tla-1
"Where There is Much Acaxochitl" (Berdan & Anawalt, v. 1, p. 168)
Donde Hay Mucha Acaxochitl (Flores de la Familia Lobelia)
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Codex Mendoza, folio 31 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 72 of 188.
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).