Toyac (Mdz20v)

Toyac (Mdz20v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Toyac shows water overflowing (toya(hua)) from a building (calli)--the latter not playing a phonetic role, just a semantic one that helps us see the water overflowing. The sign on top of the building provides the phonetic complement "To-" from tonalli, day. (See examples of tonalli, below.) The locative suffix (-c) is not shown visually, but the building provides a locative of sorts.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The tonalli signs, below, show concentric circles such as this one (which is not colored but has the same shape). Thanks are owed to Janice Lynn Peterson (2017, 187) for recognizing the shape of tonalli from the glyph for the place name Tonalli Imoquetzayan.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
semantic complement
place name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
verb
preterit tense
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Names (places)
Shells
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
orange/terracotta
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
rectangular
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
undetermined as yet
Keywords: 

water, shells, buildings, agua, conchas, edificios

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

toya(hua), to overflow (water), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toyahua
tonal(li), day, sun, heat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonalli
-c (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

desbordarse, derramarse, rebosar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 20 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 51 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: 

Tonalli Imoquetzayan (Mdz12r)

tonalli (Mdz12r)

tonalli (Mdz7v)