Iczochinanco (Mdz42r)

The iczotl plant has been translated as both yucca and date palm in the online Nahuatl Dictionary, and the Gran Diccionario del Náhuatl provides a visual of the plant from a manuscript. That image shows a white flower at the top, which really adds to the impression of a yucca palm.

The term chinamitl was more often associated with the agricultural parcels carved from the lake islands and littoral, what people call "floating gardens," but they were not really floating. They were connected to the earth with stakes or poles. These structures seem to be what the term chinamitl hints at, given that a techinamitl is a fence. Tepanchinamitl refers to being surrounded by fences.

The dots and u's that texturize the chinamitl seem to suggest agricultural activity; perhaps it is meant to appear as a parcel that has been planted. The u's look something like horseshoe prints, but this iconography reaches back on stone carvings into pre-contact times, before the horse was reintroduced in Mesoamerica. The chinamitl, as represented here, does not differ greatly from the appearance of the tlalli or the milli as painted in the Codex Mendoza, both of which were also agricultural parcels, often segmented and multi-colored. Milli entered Spanish as milpa.