Tzayanalquilpan (Mdz31r)

Tzayanalquilpan (Mdz31r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tzanayalquilpan has two principal elements. One is the herb whose leaves are divided in two, the tzanyanalquilli, and the other is a canal or water channel (apantli). The latter helps with the visualization of the locative suffix (-pan), although the water element in apantli is superfluous to the phonetic elements in the place name. The herb here is represented by two sprigs with brown stems and 8 or 9 two-tone green leaves per sprig. The apantli has a yellow trapezoidal liner, which suggests some structure. Wavy horizontal black lines suggest currents (with the one in the middle being especially thick) across the turquoise blue water that fills the cross-section of the canal.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The canal attests to our choice of the locative suffix -pan, even though the gloss omits the final -n. See below for similar representations of herbs or edible wild plants.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tzayanalquilpa.pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tzayanalquilpan, pueblo

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:

place name

Syntax:

locative (visual not silent)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Movement

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

wavy

trapezoidal

cross-sectioned object

horizontal

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

yerbas, plantas, agua

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tzayanalquili(tl), an edible herb, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzayanalquilitl
apan(tli), water channel/canal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli
-pan (locative suffix),https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 20 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 72 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)