Amacozatl (MH663r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Amacozatl (perhaps "Yellow Paper River"), attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph consists of a square sheet of paper (amatl) with a short stream of water (atl) running by and touching the lower right corner of the piece of paper (amatl). The stream has three droplets splashing off, each droplet taking the form of a small circle. The stream has thing black lines of current running down the middle. The -coz- (from coztic, yellow) part of the name is not shown visually. If the paper were painted yellow, that would have taken care of it.
Stephanie Wood
This seems to be a place name that became a personal name, or perhaps the man was from the region of what is today called Amacuzac, and still seems to suggest "Yellow Paper River." In the Codex Mendoza there is a place name called Amacoztitlan, which scholars Berdan and Karttunen have concluded refers to a "Place of Amacoztic Trees." But it could also refer to being near the river (and barrio) in the hotlands called the Amacozatl (also spelled Amacotzatl and Amacotzac). Today, there is a river in Morelos spelled Amacuzac. Pilar Maynez associates the river and barrio names with rainbows (cozamalotl), which involves the reversal of some syllables. Garibay had wondered about that, too.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
agua, papel, colores, amarillo, árboles, plantas
ama(tl), paper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amatl
coztic, yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coztic
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
Agua de los Árboles Amacoztic, o Agua de los Árboles de Papel Amarillo
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 663r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=406&st=image.
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