Ichcatlan (Mdz55r)
This is a green, white, and red drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Ichcatlan.
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This compound glyph for the place name Ichcatlan comprises a white cotton ball (ichcatl) sitting in its green stem atop two upper front teeth (tlantli) in red gums. The teeth provide the phonetic value for the locative suffix, -tlan (near).
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ychcatlan. puo
Ichcatlan, pueblo
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c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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cotton balls, bolls, teeth, place, locative,
ichca(tl), cotton, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ichcatl
tlan(tli), tooth/teeth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlantli
-tlan, by, near, among, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan
"By the Cotton" (Whittaker, 2021, 101)
ICHCA-tlan
Codex Mendoza, folio 55 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english
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).