Acayocan (Mdz29r)

This compound glyph for the place name Acayocan features acatl), or reeds, the blue-green or turquoise plants growing on the hill or mountain, or tepetl). It is interesting how the reeds are separated into two clumps, somewhat different from the classic representation of the plant and shaped something like feathers. The tepetl sign is not read phonetically as part of the place name, but may imply "place" or "altepetl." Another component that we do not see in the place name is -yo-, from yotl), meaning inalienable possession, or having a certain quality. The locative suffix, -can, is not represented visually, but the hill or mountain provides a semantic representation of the place.