otli (Verg9v)

otli (Verg9v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the glyph element for the noun otli ("road"). It show's a bird's eye view of a pair of human footprints walking from right to left between two parallel lines representing a road or pathway.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Vergara, Codex (Verg)
Date of Manuscript: 

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

near Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Syntax: 
noun(s)
visible movement
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Footprint(s), human
Movement
Transportation, Travel, Roads
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
facing left
horizontal
Keywords: 

footprint, footprints, roads, calle, pies

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

o(tli), road, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/otli

Image Source: 

Codex Vergara, folio 9v, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f26.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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See Also: 

Nauhyotl (Verg9v)

otli (Mdz10v)

otli (Mdz22r)

otli (Mdz42r)

otli (Mdz64r)

Otlamaxal (MH658v)