Huexotzinco (Chav15)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Huexotzinco (“Little Huexotla”) shows a frontal view of a white willow tree (huexotl). The tree has a round canopy with many small leaves. The upper bits of the roots are shown above ground. The -tzin- that is used in place names for spin-off communities, usually shown with the phonetic indicator of a tzintli, a rear end, is not included in this compound. The tree grows on a hill, but not the usual bell-shaped tepetl glyph. This hill is drawn as if part of a European landscape painting. The hill has contours and some shading, giving it a three-dimensionality, one indicator of European influence. The hill may still serve as a semantic indicator that this is a place and not just a tree. The -co ("at") locative suffix is not shown separately, but it could also be covered semantically by the hill. As a result, we are calling this a compound glyph.