Acolhuacapan (MH606r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Acolhuacapan (perhaps "On the Bend in the Canal") shows a swirling body of water (atl), which is a phonetic indicator that this place name starts with A-. It could also have a logographic and semantic role, if water is the important feature in the local landscape. Below the water is a human arm, meant to indicate a shoulder (acolli), which, in place names, typically refers to a bend in a river or a curve in a mountain top. The swirling water has thin and thick black lines that show its current/movement. The water also sprays off the swirl in three short streams, each one with a turbinate shell at the tip. The -hua- refers to possession, and the -pan is a locative suffix (in, on). There seems to be an extra syllable -ca-, unanalyzed as yet.