Colhuacan (TR25r)
This compound glyph for the place name Colhuacan shows a frontal view of a mountain with a bend or curve (colli) at the top (but is otherwise bell-shaped). The possessive "hua" is not shown visually. The locative suffix is implied by the mountain (tepetl) which does not play a phonetic role in the place name but is a semantic indicator. The mountain or hill is painted in two tones of green. It has curly outcroppings on its slopes, and it has a white horizontal band at the base. The curve here goes to the viewer's right.
Stephanie Wood
culhuacā
Culhuacan (also spelled Colhuacan)
Stephanie Wood
ca. 1550–1563
bent, curved, corvado, mountains, montañas, cerros, hills
Colhuacan, a place name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colhuacan
coltic, curved, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coltic
Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 25 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f75.item.zoom
The non-commercial reuse of images from the Bibliothèque nationale de France is free as long as the user is in compliance with the legislation in force and provides the citation: “Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France” or “Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.”
