Calyahualco (Mdz22r)
This compound glyph for the place name Cayahualco consists of a profile-view of a house or building (calli) with a circle around it (yahualli). These are black-line drawings. The house or building is white with the exception of the timbers, which have a t-shape and a terracotta color.
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The -yahualco ending on a place name may provide a locative suffix meaning "encircling." In this case, the result may be "Encircling the House" or "Around the House." Starr thought the translation should be a place surrounded by houses. See also Tlachyahualco (below, right), which might mean "Encircling the Ball Court."
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calyahualco.puo
Calyahualco, pueblo
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c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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houses, buildings, architecture, casas, edificios, arquitectura, circular, círculos
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Calyahualco22r.jpeg?itok=27uM4ZlC)
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
yahual(li), something round, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yahualli
yahual(tic), something round, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yahualtic
-yahualco, encircling, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yahualco
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co
"In the Circle of Houses" (apparently agreeing with Berdan and Anawalt) [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]
"In the Circle of Houses" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. 176); "Place Surrounded by Houses" (Frederick Starr, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_60723...)
"Dentro del Círculo de Casas" (traducción por SW de la traducción al inglés de Berdan y Anawalt); o "Lugar Circunvalado de Casas" (http://oldweb.geog.berkeley.edu/ProjectsResources/Glyphs/Plate06/Calyahu...)
Codex Mendoza, folio 22 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 54 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).