Xalac (Mdz28r)
This compound glyph for the place name Xalac has two principal elements. The start of the name comes from sand (xalli) which is shown as a lot of black dots. These dots fill a stream of water (atl) that flows to the viewer's right and has small branches ending in shells (round and turbinate). The dots also conform to the lines that usually show currents in the water. The locative suffix (-c) is not shown visually, at least not independent of the water.
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood
xalac.puo
Xalac, pueblo
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
arena, agua
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Xalac28r.jpeg?itok=8Lk4JTug)
xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
-c (locative suffix) https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c-1
At the Sandy Water (SW)
Codex Mendoza, folio 28 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 66 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).