# Aztec place-names

Author: Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933

Genre: Category: Archaeology & Anthropology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74756

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Aztec+place-names+Starr&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Before trying to understand Aztec hieroglyphic writing the student should gain some ideas as to how Mexican words are constructed and what changes word elements suffer in being compounded. No words are more interesting or suggestive in this direction than geographical names. This is particularly true because the hieroglyphic material most conveniently accessible to the student chances to be a list of place-names. The method of study we borrow from de la Rosa’s little work _Explicacion de algunos de los Nombres de la Lengua Mexicana_. His mode of analysis and presentation is direct and simple. De la Rosa’s arrangement has been followed in detail. The name is first presented in full; the me...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aztec-place-names-74756/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aztec-place-names-74756/chapters/2/index.md)