Cholollan (Mdz42r)
This simplex glyph for the place name Cholollan can also be interpreted to stand for the ethnicity, Chololtecatl (singular) or Chololteca (plural), just as it represents the verb, choloa, to run, flee, or jump. It shows a deer's foot, with a brown textured coat and three turquoise-colored hooves. There is a bit of white on the underside of the foot, which may intend a three-dimensionality. The locative suffix (-tlan, which goes to -lan before a stem ending in the letter l) is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
Xitlali Torres
ethnicities, etnicidades
"Where Fleeing Goes On" [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]
"Where There is Much Fleeing" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. )
Cholōl-lān = "Lugar de la huida"
Miguel León-Portilla, "Los nombres de lugar en náhuatl," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 15 (1982), 42.
Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 94 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).
