Callalatl (Verg8r)
Callalatl (Verg8r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Callalatl (“House Land-Water,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a house (calli) in profile facing toward the viewer's left. Three sprays of water (atl), each with a droplet or bead at the end, emerges from the entry way of the building. Hanging down from the bottom of the T-shaped doorway of the building is a round bell with horizontal stripes and an opening at the bottom for the sound to escape.
Stephanie Wood
The bell seems to play a phonetic role to help the reader arrive at the sense of the water (irrigation) pertaining to house land, which was typically used for agricultural purposes, perhaps something like a kitchen garden. The verb "to ring" (calani) is something of a homophone for house land (callalli). The term for outside is calan, which is also close here.
Stephanie Wood
matheo.calalatl
Mateo Callalatl
Stephanie Wood
1539
Jeff Haskett-Wood
casas, campanas, campanillas, bells, agua, suena, pinjantes
cal(li), house, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
callal(li), cultivated house land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/callalli
calani, to ring (as in a bell), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calani
cacalaca, for bells to ring, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cacalaca
Codex Vergara, folio 8r, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f23.item.zoom
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