Mizquic (Mdz6r)
This simplex glyph for the place name Mizquic derives from the plant or tree, mizquitl). The tree has a red and white vertically striped trunk, red roots, red thorns on the trunk, a leader and two branches with two-toned green foliage and, protruding from the foliage, red and yellow seed pods. The trees red, curling roots are visible.
The word mizquitl entered Mexican Spanish as mesquite, which came into English from the Spanish. It is a small leguminous tree from the genus Prosopis, and it has straight, robust spines. The red color of the spines here may suggest that they were used for bloodletting in auto-sacrifice.
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mizquic. puo
Mizquic, pueblo
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c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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trees, shrubs, árboles, arbustos, thorns, espinas
mizqui(tl), mesquite, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mizquitl
-c (locative suffix), in or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c
"Mesquite Place" [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]
"On the Mesquite" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. 193)
"El Lugar del Mesquite"
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Codex Mendoza, folio 6 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 22, 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).
