Tezonyocan (Mdz22r)

Tezonyocan (Mdz22r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a multicolored painting of the compound glyph for the place name Tezonyocan.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This compound glyph for the place name Tezonyocan features the porous, igneous rock known as tezontli filling up the shape of a tepetl) (hill or mountain, and silent here, serving as a type of locative and what Gordon Whittaker would call a "semantic complement").

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

teçoyucā, pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tezoyocan, pueblo

Gloss 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

Semantic Categories:

place name

semantic complement

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

purple

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

frontal view

segmented

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

wavy

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

stones, volcanic stones, rock formations, porous rock, igneous rock

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone or rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
tezon(tli), porous igneous rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezontli
-yo(tl)-, having that characteristic or quality/inalienable possession, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yotl
-can (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 22 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 54 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).