Hueiapan (Mdz30r)
This comples glyph stands for the place name Hueiapan ("On the Large Body of Water"). It is a circle with wavy lines running horizontally across the circle. Five of these black lines are especially thick. The contents of the circle are painted turquoise. In this case the -pan locative suffix is not shown visually. The large size of the circle seems to be providing the "huei" part of the place name, which is why it is classified as a compound glyph here, something like Huei Atotonilco.
Stephanie Wood
The other glyph for Hueiapan (see the example in the lower right of this record) does have the phonetic sound for -pan provided by a flag (panitl). Thus, the circle is a huei atl (or hueyatl), large body of water.
Stephanie Wood
hueyapan. puo
Hueiapan, pueblo
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
water, lakes, lagos, agua, Hueyapan
huei, large, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
-pan (locative suffix), on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
"On the Lake" (apparently agreeing with Berdan and Anawalt, but Karttunen also mentions that a large body of water can also be a river or the ocean, etc.) [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]
"On the Lake" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. )
Huēy-ā-pan = "En el agua grande"
Miguel León-Portilla, "Los nombres de lugar en náhuatl," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 15 (1982), 42.
Codex Mendoza, folio 30 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 70 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).
