quetza (Mdz30r)

quetza (Mdz30r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

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.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Footprint(s), human
Colors: 
black
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

foot, feet, footprints, pies, huellas de pie

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

quetza, to raise; to lift; to build, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetza

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 70 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

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).

See Also: 

Cuachquetzaloyan (Mdz30r)