Atenco (Chav17)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Atenco (“At the Edge of the Water," or "At the Shore”) shows a flow of water (atl heading toward the reader's left. The water contains two notable swirls, and it divides at the end into three flows or splashes, each with a droplet or bead at the end. The water is placed in such a sway that it covers (and draws attention to) the chin up to the lips (tentli), which serve as a phonetic indicator for the -ten- in the place name. This is a man's head shown in profile, facing toward the reader's right. The locative suffix (-co) is not shown visually here.
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Atengo
Atenco
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1578
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agua, orilla, litoral, lugar
atenco, coast, at the water's edge, at the edge of the sea, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atenco
a(tl)>, water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
ten(tli), lips, edge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co
En la Orilla del Agua
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The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03246_001/?sp=17&st=image
The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco) is held by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. It is published online by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”