tlaco (Mdz8r)

The parallel vertical hash marks also appear on the corn cobs in glyphs for cintli, the dried ears of maize, and in the agricultural tool called the huictli. Some see today's word "taco" as having evolved from tlaco (half, folded over). In the process of Hispanization of words beginning with tla-, it is not at all uncommon for them to have evolved to begin with ta-. In the contextualizing shot, we see a mother giving her daughter a half of a tortilla. The gloss, in Spanish, clarifies what the object is. This iconographic example also supports our analysis of the other example of "tlaco" in this collection, from folio 46 recto. In that example, the visual is not a tortilla but a parcel of agricultural land.