Ehuacalco (Mdz40r)

Ehuacalco (Mdz40r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Ehuacalco shows an animal skin (ehuatl) just inside the entry way of a house or building (calli). The locative suffix (-co) is not shown visually in a specific way, but perhaps the building provides a semantic locative.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual, but represented semantically)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ehua(tl), skin or hide, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehuatl
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-co (locative suffix), in or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 40 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 90 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

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).