tlantli (Mdz20v)
This glyphic element for tlantli (teeth) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tzapotitlan. In that compound it was a phonogram, but here we are including it as a logogram.
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Gordon Whittaker (Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs, 2021, 102) has discovered that the full set of teeth (top and bottom) are used, as in Tzapotitlan, when there is a ligature (-ti-) before the locative suffix -tlan.
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c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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place, locative, teeth
tlan(tli), teeth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlantli
-tlan, by, near, among, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan
teeth or place
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Codex Mendoza, folio 20 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 51 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).