quetza (Mdz30r)
This element for quetza, the verb "to stand," has been carved from the compound place name Cuachquetzaloyan. The visual is a black footprint (from a right foot). It is heading toward the viewer's right.
Stephanie Wood
Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
foot, feet, footprints, pies, huellas de pie
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/quetza30rAtomic.png?itok=Z2hrejXC)
quetza, to raise; to lift; to build, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetza
Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 70 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).