xo (Mdz41r)
This element for xo (foot, feet) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Xocoyoltepec. It shows a human foot in profile, facing to our right, and wearing a white shoe or sandal (cactli) with a red leather tie.
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Not all glyphs for feet in the Codex Mendoza show footwear (cactli), which may be a sign of status or privilege on the part of the wearer. It may also be owing to the apparent fact that the foot belongs to a dancer, for above the shoe (see the entry for Xocoyoltepec) are some bells and a leg wrap made from jaguar (ocelotl) skin.
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c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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foot, feet, shoes, sandals
xo-, an element with the sense of foot in compounds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xo
xopil(li), the toes of the foot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xopilli
icxopol(li), the sole of the foot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icxopolli
xocpal(li), the sole of the foot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xocpalli
-pan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
pano, to cross or cross over, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pano
el pie
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Codex Mendoza, folio 41 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 92 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).
