a la huerta (Osu12v)
This iconographic example comes from the Codex Osuna, folio 12 verso (or Image 27). It is included here for the possible purpose of comparing the details with hieroglyphs. This scene shows a fruit tree enclosed by a wall. The tree appears in an elevation view, while the wall is in a bird’s eye view.
Stephanie Wood
Of course, the “a la” start to the word for orchard (huerta in Spanish), incorporates a preposition and an article. The combination got frozen, even though the meaning was just huerta. Other examples in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary are a la calle, a la cárcel, a la China, and more.
Stephanie Wood
1551–1565
Jeff Haskett-Wood
agricultura, frutas, árboles, huertas, bardas, recinto
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a la huerta, orchard (a loan from Spanish), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/la-huerta
a la (part of a congealed loan phrase), to the, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/la-0
la huerta
Stephanie Wood
Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico (Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes y Regidores de México), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
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