-tlah: place where there is an abundance of something
-ton-tli: diminuitive
-c(o): locative suffix
"Little Place of the Dead"
andaya: hell
Mary Elizabeth Smith, Picture Writing in Ancient Southern Mexico: Mixtec Place Signs and Maps, Civilization of the American Indian Series 124 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973) 77-78.
Codex Bodley, page 3. Monte Albán
Yucu Oco├▒a├▒a
yucu: hill
oco: twenty
├▒a├▒a: jaguar
"Hill of Twenty Jaguars"
Mary Elizabeth Smith, Picture Writing in Ancient Southern Mexico: Mixtec Place Signs and Maps, Civilization of the American Indian Series 124 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973) 206.
Maarten Jansen, ΓÇ£Nombres hist├│ricos e identidad etnica en los c├│dices mixtecos,ΓÇ¥ Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe 47 (1989).