cozahui (Mdz31r)

cozahui (Mdz31r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph, which doubles as a compound glyph for the place name Tecozauhtlan is being repurposed here to serve as an entry for the verb cozahui, to turn yellow. Normally, we would carve an element from the compound, but here the yellow is running all through the stone and the rocky sand around it. The upright, oval stone with curly ends does not have its usual purple and orange wavy parallel lines, but is merely yellow, emphasizing that color.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Dirt, Sand, Soil
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Colors: 
yellow or golden
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cozahui, to turn yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozahui

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 31 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 72 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

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).