Tamazollan (Mdz43r)
This simplex glyph for the place name Tamazollan is a toad (tamazolin). It is painted turquoise blue and has small circular lumps all over its body. It is shown in profile, facing to the viewer's right. The locative suffix (-tlan, which goes to -lan when combined with a stem ending in "l") is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
tamaçolan.puo
Tamazollan, pueblo
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c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
toads, sapos
tamazol(in), toad, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tamazolin
-tlan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan
Codex Mendoza, folio 43 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 96 of 188.
Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)