Tula vs. Teotihuacan

[John Sullivan, Ph.D.]

Joe,
 So it looks like this is the impersonal form of "teoti", "he/she/it becomes or becomes like a god". A better translation of "teotihua" would be "god-becoming happens". I don't have a grammar with me, and I'm trying to think, are there other place names built on the preterite of the impersonal form of a verb? And, can the preterite of the impersonal form of a verb be interpreted as a noun? 
John

On Friday, December 01, 2006, at 07:13PM, "Campbell,  R Joe" <campbel at indiana.edu> wrote:
>John,
>
>    This is the only place in the Florentine Codex that "teotihua-" occurs.
>Due to my not total eptness with Windows (thanks a lot, Bill), I am 
>including below the fragment of text and I will send comments in a 
>separate message.
>
>Iztayohmeh,
>
>Joe
>
>
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