Ayahualolco (TR25r)
This compound glyph for the place name Ayahualolco shows a lagoon (ayahualli). The lagoon comprises water (atl) swirling in a circle (yahualli) or something round (yahualolli). Behind the swirling water is a hill or mountain (tepetl) that is not a phonetic part of the name but serves as a semantic indicator for the locative suffix (-co). The upright, bell-shaped mountain is painted green, it has curly rocky outcroppings on its slopes, and it has a white horizontal band near the base.
Stephanie Wood
ayavalulco
Ayahualolco
Stephanie Wood
ca. 1550–1563
Jeff Haskett-Wood
lagoons, lagunas, hills, cerros, mountains, montañas
ayahual(li), lagoon or well, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayahualli
yahualol(li), something round, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yahualolli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 25 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f75.item.zoom
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