coztic (Mdz44r)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This circle painted yellow is an iconographic example for the noun coztic (yellow, a color name and an adjective).
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
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Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
coztic, something yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coztic
-tic, a suffix for adjective-like substantives, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tic-0
Image Source:
Codex Mendoza, folio 44 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 98 of 188.
Image Source, Rights:
Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)