Mitzinco (Mdz40r)
This compound glyph for the place name Mitzinco involves two principal elements, an arrow (mitl) and a buttocks (tzintli)[, standing in for the sound-alike, -tzinco, a diminutive locative suffix that suggests "little" or "lower" in place names or, as Frances Karttunen suggests, "new," as in New Mitlan. The arrow is red and yellow and pointed to the viewer's right. It is decorated with gray or purple and white feathers. The buttocks is painted a terracotta color, with the exception of the white belt of the loincloth. The loincloth suggests it is half of a male body. It is sitting in an upright position, with its elevated knees to the viewer's right. This sitting position also reveals that the body is that of a male.
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The original Mitlan may have been a place known for arrow making, but the "new" or spin-off pueblo would not necessarily have had connotation.
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mitzinco. puo
Mitzinco, pueblo
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c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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arrows, darts, feathers, little, lower, butt, buttocks, flechas, plumas, nalgas, trasero
mi(tl), arrow or dart, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl
tzin(tli), buttocks), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzintli
-tzinco (diminutive locative), at the little or lower, or new (as in spin-off), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzinco
-co (locative suffix), at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co
"New Mitlan" [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]
"On the Small Arrow" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. 193)
"Nuevo Mitlan"
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Codex Mendoza, folio 40 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 90 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).
