Tototepec (Mdz46r)
This colorful compound glyph for the place name Tototepec ("Bird Mountain" or "Bird Hill") shows a two-toned green, bell-shaped sign for mountain or hill (tepetl). At the base of the hill are two horizontal lines, red and yellow, that point to the spot where a spring might emit water. On top of the hill stands a green bird in profile, facing right, with its wings raised somewhat. Its breast is white. The locative suffix (-c) (as given in the gloss) is not shown visually, but it combines with -tepe- to form -tepec, a visual locative suffix meaning "on the hill" or "on the mountain."
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
mountains, hills, nombres de lugares

toto(tl), bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tototl
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec
Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 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).