[Aztlan] Suspension Bridge

[jeremy smith]

Is it true the word Copan itself means bridge?
   
   
  I read on this excerpt at: http://www.honduras.net/copan/index.html
   
   
  Lic. Doc. Don Diego García de Palacios, Member of the Royal Audience of Guatemala, on 
  March 8, 1576, wrote to Philip II of Spain, giving him descriptions of the Ruins, which is 
  considered as the first written account of these remarkable Ruins. Most of the archeological 
  Mayan sites today bear the name given to them by their discoverers. The case of Copan is 
  different. It can not be asserted that this was the name under which the city originated, 
  developed and flourished, but according to Palacios’ letter we can be sure that it was known 
  by such a name during the sixteenth century. Investigators have not yet agreed upon the 
  etymology of the word “Copan”. Several translations have been offered regarding its meaning 
  such as “bridge”, “Capital of Co”, and others say it comes from the Nahuatl language, and 
  they add the ending “tl”, thus converting it into “Copantl”, which means “ pontoon or bridge”
   

       
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