Tochtlan (Mdz50r)

Tochtlan (Mdz50r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tochtlan ("Near the Rabbits") includes a rabbit (tochtli) in full body and in a profile view, facing toward the viewer's right. The rabbit's eye is open and its teeth are protruding. Its purple coat is textured, and its belly is white. Below the rabbit is the element tlantli (teeth) which is used as a phonetic indicator for the locative suffix -tlan.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tochtli glyphs and elements are typically full bodied and shown in profile, such as this one is. But, in some cases, one will also see just a rabbit head.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tuchtlan/.puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Tochtlan, 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: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
locative (visual not silent)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Names (places)
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
purple
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
facing right
profile view
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

rabbits, place, locative, teeth, conejos, nombres de lugares, topónimos, dientes

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

toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
tlan(tli), tooth/teeth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlantli
-tlan (locative suffix), by, near, among, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

"By the Rabbits"

Whittaker's Transliteration: 

TOCH-tlan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cerca de los Conejos

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 50 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 110 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: 

tochtli (Mdz50r)

tlantli (Mdz50r)

tochtli (Mdz17v)

tochtli (Mdz8r)

tochtli (Mdz46r)

tochtli (Mdz48r)